Child Bride (72 page)

A picture of Priscilla with her real father, James F. Wagner. He would die tragically soon thereafter, on his way to see her.
Collection of Currie Grant. Photograph courtesy of Kathryn Wagner

Already a beauty—and beauty contestant—at three years of age.
Collection of Currie Grant. Photograph courtesy of Kathryn Wagner

Priscilla’s school photograph from second grade.
Photograph courtesy of Katherine Patton

Priscilla with friend Donna Brooke in the fifth grade at LW. Podham, 1955–56.
Photograph courtesy of Ann George

Priscilla is crowned Carnival Queen. Her best friend and rival Pam Rutherford is second from right (in Starred cape).
Photograph courtesy of Pam Gaines.

A young Elvis backstage with fans, Barbra and Charlotte Dampier, after a 1955 concert in Conroe, Texas, a few hundred miles from an adoring Priscilla.
Photograph courtesy of Barbra Dampier LaCarter and Charlotte Dampier Spurlock

With fans at New Orleans Municipal Auditorium, 1956.
Photograph courtesy of Beryl C. Quinton

Priscilla, at thirteen (center), in Del Valle, Texas. Pam Rutherford, her best friend, is second from the right.
Photograph courtesy of Evangeline Anguiano.

As a cheerleader, she was considered the prettiest girl at Del Valle Jr. High.
Photograph courtesy of Del Valle Jr./Sr. High.

A mature-looking eighth-grader at Del Valle, the year before she met Elvis.
Photograph courtesy of Del Valle Jr./Sr. High.

Elvis and friends at the Lido in Paris, January 1960. Currie Grant sits next to Elvis, two months after Elvis supposedly banished him. Joe Esposito is front left, beside Heli Priemel. Cliff Gleaves, Elvis’s best friend, is at front right.
Collection of Currie Grant. Used by permission.

Currie Grant in 1977, standing in front of the house on Goethestrasse where he took Priscilla to meet Elvis in September 1959.
Collection of Currie Grant. Used by permission.

Elisabeth Stefaniak, Elvis’s German secretary and sometime date, until Priscilla arrived.
Photograph copyright
© 1997
by Currie Grant. Used by permission.