Priscilla Presley Highlights "Unbreakable" Bond With Riley Keough in Family Photo
Priscilla Presley admits it’s been a lonesome few years without her daughter Lisa Marie Presley.
Three years after the sole daughter of Elvis Presley suddenly died at 54, her mother addressed how the tragedy affected their larger living family, which includes Lisa Marie’s children Riley Keough, 36, and 17-year-old twins Harper Lockwood and Finley Lockwood.
“It’s kind of separated us in a way,” Priscilla admitted during a live conversation at the Westgate Las Vegas May 2. “You know, we would get together and have meals and have family.”
The 80-year-old said that was due in part to Lisa Marie’s youngest girls—whom she shared with ex Michael Lockwood—approaching adulthood. As she put it, “They’ve got their boyfriends and do their thing.”
However, Priscilla’s son Navarone Garibaldi—whom she shares with ex Marco Garibaldi—quickly shared a different perspective, noting he felt the shift actually dates back to the death of Lisa Marie’s son Benjamin Keough in 2020.
“I think actually losing Ben was the first thing that separated us,” the 39-year-old reasoned. “When you would think that should be something that would bring everyone together. That somehow separated us further because everyone grieves in different ways.”
Following the 2023 death of Lisa Marie, Navarone argued, “I feel like we’re actually closer together.”
Meanwhile, Priscilla’s granddaughter Riley—who shares two young kids with husband Ben Smith-Petersen—has previously shared insight into the family’s grieving period immediately following Lisa Marie’s passing.
"When my mom passed, there was a lot of chaos in every aspect of our lives," the 36-year-old told Vanity Fair in August 2023. "Everything felt like the carpet had been ripped out and the floor had melted from under us. Everyone was in a bit of a panic to understand how we move forward, and it just took a minute to understand the details of the situation, because it's complicated.”
Nodding to the temporary differences she and Priscilla faced following her mom’s death, Riley assured, “There was a bit of upheaval, but now everything's going to be how it was.”
For a deeper look into the Presley family tree, keep reading…
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Elvis Presley
In life, Elvis Presley was one of the biggest musical artists of all time. And the "Don't Be Cruel" singer remained a towering star after his untimely death from heart failure—due to cardiovascular and hypertensive heart disease exacerbated by prescription drug abuse—at the age of 42 in 1977.
When he was 23, he met 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu in 1959 while he was stationed in what was then West Germany during his time serving in the U.S. Army. While Priscilla has maintained that they had a relatively chaste relationship until she turned 18, she accepted her famous boyfriend's invitation to finish high school in Memphis, ostensibly living with Elvis' father Vernon Presley and stepmother Dee Presley but spending most of her time at Graceland.
Elvis and Priscilla got married on May 1, 1967, at the Aladdin hotel in Las Vegas. Nine months later, daughter Lisa Marie Presley was born on Feb. 1, 1968.
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Priscilla Presley
"I loved taking care of Elvis very much," Priscilla, who was 21 when she married the King of Rock and Roll, told People in 2021. "I loved tending to him. I loved feeding him. We would baby talk, because you have to have your own language when you have that many people around. It was a good life. It was different, but it was ours."
Their life as husband and wife ended when they separated in February 1972. After their divorce was finalized the following year, Elvis candidly sharing during one of his Vegas shows that they split up because he was "traveling too much, gone too much."
While Priscilla moved to Los Angeles with Lisa Marie, they would still spend time at Graceland as a family, the matriarch telling People in 1978, "That helped Lisa to feel stable. There was never any arguing or bitterness."
When Elvis died on Aug. 16, 1977, Priscilla was devastated. "I could not face the reality that I would never see him alive again," she wrote in her 1985 memoir Elvis and Me. "He had always been there for me. I depended on him, just as he depended on me. We had a bond."
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Lisa Marie Presley
Lisa Marie, 9 years old at the time, was at Graceland when her father died.
"I was always worried about my dad dying," the rock scion wrote in her memoir From Here to the Great Unknown, which was posthumously released in 2024. "Sometimes I’d see him and he was out of it. Sometimes I would find him passed out. I wrote a poem with the line, 'I hope my daddy doesn’t die.'"
And the day he passed, she noted in the book, "my life as I knew it is completely over."
Lisa Marie went on to become a singer-songwriter in her own right, releasing her debut album To Whom it May Concern in 2003.
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She married musician Danny Keough in 1988 and their union produced daughter Riley Keough and son Benjamin Keough before they divorced in 1994.
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Lisa Marie swapped vows with Michael Jackson on May 26, 1994, less than three weeks after her divorce was finalized. Their headline-making marriage lasted less than two years, but Lisa-Marie told Oprah Winfrey in 2010—a year after Michael's shocking death—that they had continued to see each other on and off for years, that she'd "never felt like that around another human being."
Lisa Marie married avowed Elvis fan Nicolas Cage in August 2002. He filed for divorce that November but it wasn't finalized until May 2004.
In a statement, the actor vowed to not talk about their breakup, but said he loved Lisa Marie, who in turn stated at the time, "I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place. It was a big mistake."
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The bride's ex-husband Danny served as best man when Lisa Marie married musician Michael Lockwood in January 2006. They welcomed fraternal twin daughters Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood and Finley Aaron Love Lockwood in 2008.
Lisa Marie filed for divorce in 2016 and the proceedings turned messy, resulting in the twins temporarily living with Priscilla. The split was ultimately finalized in May 2021.
Two days after attending the Golden Globes in support of Baz Luhrmann's Elvis, starring Austin Butler as the titular legend, Lisa Marie died on Jan. 12, 2023. The cause was determined to be a small bowel obstruction caused by scar tissue from previous bariatric surgery. She was 54.
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Navarone Garibaldi
Priscilla welcomed son Navarone with then-partner Marco Garibaldi Garcia on March 1, 1987. A musician like his half-sister, Marco fronts the L.A.-based band Them Guns.
He married longtime girlfriend Elisa Achilli in 2022 on the grounds of a 16th-century castle-turned-luxury hotel in Switzerland.
"They've been together for four years," Priscilla told People at the time, "and we've all been waiting patiently for this day."
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Riley Keough
Riley was born May 29, 1989, to Lisa Marie and her first husband, Danny Keough. A model, singer and actress known for The Girlfriend Experience, Daisy Jones & the Six and films including Magic Mike and Logan Lucky, she became the sole owner of Graceland after her mother's death.
She also set out to complete Lisa Marie's unfinished book, telling People upon its release in 2024, "What she wanted to do in her memoir, and what I hope I’ve done in finishing it for her, is to go beneath the magazine headline idea of her and reveal the core of who she was. To turn her into a three-dimensional human being: the best mother, a wild child, a fierce friend, an underrated artist, frank, funny, traumatized, joyous, grieving, everything that she was throughout her remarkable life."
Riley married Australian stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen in 2015. They share daughter Tupelo Storm, born in August 2022 via surrogate, and another child they quietly welcomed in early 2025.
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Benjamin Keough
Benjamin died by suicide in July 2020 at the age of 27. A rep for Lisa Marie said at the time that she was "completely heartbroken, inconsolable and beyond devastated but trying to stay strong for her 11-year-old twins" and Riley.
While Lisa Marie candidly wrote about her grief, noting in a 2022 essay for People that "you do not 'get over it,' you do not 'move on,'" the depth of her loss came into sharper focus after her own death.
She revealed in her memoir that she preserved Benjamin's body on dry ice for two months on her L.A.-area property before she was ready to let him go. He was eventually laid to rest at Graceland in October 2020.
Lisa Marie was buried next to her son less than three years after his death.
Harper Lockwood and Finley Lockwood
Harper and Finley, born Oct. 7, 2008, lead relatively private lives living with their dad Michael, who became their legal guardian after Lisa Marie died.
The teens don't post much to their respective Instagram accounts, but they paid tribute to their mom on the second anniversary of her death in 2025. Finley posted a pic to Instagram Stories of her and her sister as babies in Lisa Marie's arms, writing, "2 years...i love you always." Harper shared a snap from when they were toddlers, writing, "I can't believe it's been 2 years. I miss you and love you so much mama."
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