Public mourners begin lining up at 5 a.m. to attend Lisa Marie Presley’s funeral
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Fans of the king of rock n’ roll have come to his Memphis mansion over the weekend to say goodbye to his daughter.
Thousands of people are expected to attend Lisa Marie Presley’s public funeral on Sunday, with fans already lining up outside her father’s famed Graceland estate.
She will be buried at the Memphis estate on Sunday alongside her father, Elvis, and son Benjamin, who committed suicide at age 27 in July 2020.
Presley’s body will go on public display during the celebration of life at the family’s Graceland estate, which will air live at 9 am Central Time.
A schedule for Sunday’s memorial service has not yet been released, but the New York Times reports that a procession was planned for fans to view his tombstone, where they might leave flowers or other offerings.
Among those in attendance, seated just up front, are Lisa Marie’s daughter, actress Riley Keough, and her mother, Priscilla Presley.
Thousands of mourners have descended on Graceland on Sunday morning for Lisa Marie Presley’s funeral.
Lisa Marie Presley’s final resting place has been unveiled at Graceland ahead of her funeral as her family prepares to lay her to rest alongside her son and his famous father.
Lisa Marie Presley went into cardiac arrest at her Calabasas home and died at a Los Angeles hospital on January 12.
His 77-year-old mother Priscilla was by his side and the family, learning he was brain dead, made the decision to sign a DNR order.
The Los Angeles County coroner announced Tuesday that it would defer the results of his official cause of death pending the results of a toxicology test, which could take years.
Lisa Marie’s gray marble sarcophagus now stands next to her burial place and looks exactly like her son’s. Photos of the couple together have been posted in front of their monuments.
Benjamin’s resting place had to be moved slightly to accommodate his mother’s.
The plaque that will cover the grave is currently covered with a tarpaulin for protection.
Graceland’s 450-room hotel is now full for the event, Kevin Kane, executive director of Memphis Tourism, told the Times, and hotels near the museum and Beale Street “saw a surge in last-minute bookings for the weekend.” week”.
A public service stage has been built on the front lawn with a podium. Hundreds of seats have been placed around it and screens have been placed around the burial site.
The memorial service will be held at the Graceland estate in Memphis, where a 450-room hotel was sold out.
Fans began lining up at 5 a.m. for the memorial service on Sunday.
Lisa Marie will rest next to Benjamin, who took his own life in 2020
Photos of the two together have been posted at their resting places.
The couple’s plots are in front of their famous father Elvis.
Riley Keough touched down in Memphis for the event on Saturday night.
Keough, 33, arrived on a private jet shortly after his grandmother Priscilla Presley and ex-stepfather Michael Lockwood landed.
Lisa Marie Presley, 54, was last seen in public on January 10 (above) at the Golden Globes.
Lockwood was the fourth and last husband of Lisa Marie, and the father of her 14-year-old twin daughters, Harper and Finley.
Keough’s father is Lisa Marie’s first husband, actor Danny Keough, who stayed close to the troubled star and was living with her at the time of her death, performing CPR until paramedics arrived.
She was accompanied by her husband, Australian stuntman Ben Smith-Peterson.
Dressed in sweatpants, her hair loose, Keough lit a cigarette outside the airport.
She also appeared to be pregnant with a baby, although she herself is childless.
It was the first time they had seen her since her mother’s sudden death.
Keough had previously posted a moving Instagram tribute post for his mother, the first time he has acknowledged her death.
She posted a photo of her mother looking up adoringly at her as a little girl as she stared back at her with a soft smile on her face.
Presley’s eldest son simply captioned the heartbreaking post with a red heart.
A plane parked at Graceland is named after Lisa Marie Presley
Fans are shown visiting Graceland ahead of the memorial service on Sunday.
Several fans of the king of rock n’ roll left flowers on the rocks outside the estate.
Presley grew up fearing her own mortality after finding her father dead at the age of nine, traumatizing her.
He often spoke of his own death and even referred to the backyard of the Graceland estate as a “graveyard”.
‘How many people have a family grave in the backyard? How many people are reminded of their fate, their mortality, every damn day? All the graves are lined up and there is a place there waiting for me, right next to my grandmother,” she told Playboy in 2003.
Despite her fear, the singer believed that she had many more years to live.
Last Sunday he told his friend David Kessler, who works as a grief counselor, that he had “a lot to do.”
The couple were at the Graceland estate to celebrate what would have been Elvis’ 88th birthday.
Presley, who rarely made public appearances since his son’s death, told the adoring crowd: “You’re the only people who can get me out of the house.”
On Aug. 30, Lisa revealed that she makes a conscious decision every day to stay alive for her 33-year-old daughter and 14-year-old fraternal twin daughters Harper Vivienne Ann and Finley Aaron Love (pictured in 2021).
Lisa Marie is seen with her four children: twins Harper and Finley, now 14; Riley, 33; and Benjamin, who committed suicide in July 2020 at age 27.
She added: ‘I’m not kidding. I love you back and that’s why I’m here.
Several of the Presleys also died of heart problems, including his own father, who died in 1977 at the age of 42 of cardiac arrhythmia with ventricular fibrillation, a condition in which the heart beats abnormally and then stops.
His grandmother, Gladys Love Presley, died at the age of 46 from heart failure, and his grandfather, Vernon Elvis Presley, died at age 63 from cardiac arrest.