“It had been Elvis’s love and hobby for years, and when I first took it up, it was just another of my efforts to get his attention and approval, as in the past when I’d enrolled in French classes because he liked the language, took flamenco dancing because he was an aficionado, and ballet because he adored dancers’ bodies…

“The training was incredibly exacting. Over and over we’d executive the same movement until perfected…

“Now I could understand Elvis’s enslavement to karate. It was an accomplishment, an achievement of confidence and physical master of self.”

Soon this made Priscilla enjoy the liberation of enjoying her own hobbies and knowing her own mind, which led her away from Elvis, despite her original intention.