Meet Elvis Presley’s last love Ginger Alden: the only person the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll proposed to apart from Priscilla, the former beauty queen was just 20 when she found him dead

Aug 7 , 2022

Ginger Alden was the last person to see Elvis Presley alive, but has been frozen out by his family since his death. Photos: Ginger Alden/Facebook, @PeterParker_84/Twitter

Ginger Alden first met Elvis Presley on a tour of Graceland – he proposed to her just 2 months after they started dating with a diamond from his famous TCB show ring

But Presley’s family weren’t fans, and after his death, his uncle said that Alden was ‘dead’ to them and that they didn’t ‘even recognise her as a human being’

She was the last person Elvis Presley loved – and the person who found the 42-year-old legend dead on the bathroom floor at Graceland. Meet Ginger Alden – one of the most disliked women by Presley’s inner circle and yet the only woman he proposed to, except his wife, Priscilla.

Ginger Alden was a young beauty queen when she met Elvis Presley. Photo: @1atlanticcity/Twitter

Their short love story is nevertheless complicated – it was always going to be, when one half of the couple was world-famous. But from the young beauty queen’s perspective, she had found her soulmate and the man she wanted to spend her life with.

Here’s their love story, hiccups and all …

A bad start

Elvis Presley and Ginger Alden took a trip to Hawaii in March 1977, five months before his death. Photo: @ginger_alden_fan/Instagram

Just months after Presley and Linda Thompson split, he started dating another former beauty queen, this time Alden. Alden and her two sisters were invited to go to Graceland. She was 20 and Presley was 41. According to The DeSoto Times Tribune, Alden admitted to being immediately attracted to the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. She said Presley teased her about the fact that she was staring so much and said the feeling between them was mutual.

A younger Elvis Presley walks through the International Hotel in Las Vegas, in 1969. Photo: @jmhound/Instagram

But Presley’s inner circle – known as the “Memphis Mafia” – reportedly didn’t approve of Alden. According to reports, she did not bond with the crew as much as Thompson had. After Presley’s death, his uncle Vester explained to the press that the family was “not interested in her” because “she took advantage of Elvis’ name”.

He even went as far as to say: “Ginger Alden is dead now as far as the family is concerned. We don’t even recognise her as a human being.”

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