Priscilla Presley has advised her late daughter Lisa Marie Presley she is going to all the time be liked at an emotional memorial service for the singer.
She spoke on the star-studded ‘celebration of life’ ceremony on the entrance garden of Elvis’ Graceland property on Sunday after 54 yr previous Lisa was killed by two coronary heart assaults on January 12, together with her household signing a Do Not Resuscitate order whereas she lay in a Los Angeles hospital with family members together with Priscilla at her aspect.
Priscilla learn a poem by one in every of mum-of-four Lisa’s 14-year-old twin daughters Finley and Harper as hundreds gathered for her farewell, earlier than performances by stars together with Alanis Morissette and Axl Rose and a procession to Lisa’s resting place alongside her dad and son Benjamin, who took his life aged 27 in July 2020.
The poem hailed Lisa Marie an “icon, a role model and a superhero”, and, referring to her heartbreak over Benjamin’s loss of life, mentioned: “She always knew she wouldn’t be here too long… some say a broken heart killed her.”
Priscilla, 77, added: “Our hearts are broken. Lisa, we all love you.”
Lisa Marie’s different daughter, actress Riley Keough, 33, was unable to face on stage and provides her eulogy, so her husband Ben Smith-Petersen, 31, learn it on her behalf.
Riley’s farewell recalled about her mum: “I remember you driving me in my car seat playing Aretha Franklin. I remember the feeling I’d get when you picked me up from school.
“Thank you for showing me that love is the only thing that matters in this world.”
Concluding her and her siblings had been “products of your heart”, Riley’s message added: “We are you, you are us. Thank you for trying so hard for all of us.”
Former Memphis Mayor AC Wharton added Lisa Marie “was the jewel of this city”.
Priscilla was seen arriving together with her household, together with son Navarone Garibaldi, daughter Riley and Lisa Marie’s ex-husband, Michael Lockwood, 61.
It is unclear if Lisa’s twins had been in attendance for the general public service, or in the event that they solely went to the non-public household memorial that befell earlier than the general public service.
Lisa’s shut good friend Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, 63, arrived a couple of minutes earlier than the Presley household and Austin Butler, 31, who performed Elvis in Baz Luhrmann’s movie concerning the singer, arrived hand-in-hand together with his girlfriend Kaia Gerber, 21.
Austin’s sister Ashley Butler, 37, can also be mentioned to have joined the occasion.
Elvis’ music ‘He Touched Me’ was performed whereas a dwell stream of the memorial began, earlier than Jason Clark and the Tennessee Mass Choir sang a model of ‘Amazing Grace’.
Billy Corgan, 55, from Smashing Pumpkins sang his group’s 1998 music ‘To Sheila’, and Alanis Morissette, 48, carried out her 2021 tune ‘Rest’.
Axl Rose, 60, then carried out Guns N’ Roses’ hit ‘November Rain’, with the memorial ending with a message stating donations in Lisa’s reminiscence could possibly be made to the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation.
After the service, there was a procession to Lisa’s remaining resting place in Graceland’s Meditation Garden.
Lisa Marie’s gray marble sarcophagus sat subsequent to her burial spot in the identical spot as her son Benjamin’s, and photographs of them collectively had been positioned in entrance of their monuments.
Benjamin’s resting place needed to be moved barely to make room for his mum’s.
Lisa Marie’s physique was on show to the general public throughout the celebration of life on the household’s property, livestreamed from 9am.
Mourners held flowers as they waited for the service to start below the bushes of Graceland, owned by Lisa Marie and the place she lived with Elvis when she was a toddler.
