Elvis Presley and his long-term girlfriend, Priscilla Beaulieu, got married in Las Vegas on May 1, 1967.

The couple had been together for seven years, and Priscilla claimed to be a virgin when they got married, but some biographers have cast doubt on this claim.

Elvis had refused to have s^x with her before their marriage, despite her telling him: “I’m a woman who needs to make love to feel desired by a man. Please don’t make me beg.”

The wedding ceremony was brief, lasting only eight minutes and was arranged by Elvis’s manager, Colonel Parker.

The newlyweds enjoyed a short honeymoon in Palm Springs until May 4, where they fully consummated their relationship for the first time.

Some of Elvis’s closest friends, like Red West, were not invited to the wedding ceremony.

According to the biography Down at the End of Lonely Street: The Life and Death of Elvis Presley by Peter Harry Brown and Pat H.

Broeske, Elvis’s long-term housekeeper, Alberta Holman, found him in tears of despair the night before the wedding.

She asked Elvis why he didn’t just cancel it if it was making him so unhappy, and he replied, “I don’t have a choice.”

There were rumors that Priscilla’s father threatened to prosecute Elvis for taking a minor across state lines, angry that Elvis had lived with his daughter for so many years without making their relationship official.

Other claims suggested that Priscilla had pressured Elvis into marriage, threatening to go to the press with details about their relationship, particularly as she had been so young at the start.

Elvis was notorious for his numerous affairs throughout his career, especially with his film co-stars.

Apart from the constant infidelities, Priscilla was also desperate to take their relationship all the way.

In an interview with Barbara Walters, Priscilla said that Elvis had made an agreement with himself that the woman he decided to take for his wife, he was going to keep that way until he married her.

She claimed that Elvis wanted a virgin, but this is disputed by biographer Susan Finstad in the 1997 biography, Child Bride: The Untold Story of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley.

Immediately after the marriage, Priscilla found out that she was pregnant.

She worried that a baby and motherhood could threaten the newfound intimacy and stability she had with Elvis and change the way he saw her.

Lisa Marie was born nine months later on February 1, 1968.

Apparently, Priscilla had asked if she could take birth control pills, but Elvis had insisted they weren’t perfected yet.

The pregnancy was the beginning of the end for their relationship.

Priscilla told Barbara Walters that Elvis had a hard time dealing with her being a mother and the little girl that she was to him.

They started living apart, and they separated in February 1972.

In private, Elvis was known to have numerous affairs throughout his career, especially with his film co-stars.

He was officially dating actress Anita Wood when he met Priscilla, and had a major entanglement with Viva Las Vegas’ Ann Margret which drove Priscilla to hurl a vase at the wall.

There were reports that Sanders gave Elvis an ultimatum to either marry Priscilla or let her go, as the situation was starting to look bad for his public image.

Priscilla later claimed that Elvis never wanted to marry her, and some biographers have suggested that the men she slept with were not Elvis himself.

However, their wedding was a big deal, attended by friends, family, and business associates from Elvis’s film and record companies MGM, RCA, and the William Morris Agency.