Graceland has been a museum for over 40 years, however Elvis Presley’s daughter at all times nonetheless noticed the mansion as dwelling.

Lisa Marie Presley, who died in January, would take her youngsters to the home for Thanksgiving after the excursions stopped, get pleasure from driving the gold carts and seeing the horses as a household.

When it got here to dinner, china plates had been taken out of a drawer from Aunt Delta’s bed room simply off Graceland’s kitchen.

They would then be laid out on the eating room desk with an additional one added on the tip for extra visitors.

Lisa Marie as soon as instructed USA Today: “It’s a very special place…it shuts down quite nice at night. I have family that I love very much who live there in Memphis. When I go… I visit [Graceland]. We have dinner there. My family still goes there, and we still have a life there.”

Express.co.uk lately caught up with Graceland archivist and private good friend of Lisa Marie, Angie Marchese, who was in London overseeing the opening of the Direct From Graceland: Elvis exhibition, with over 400 objects from the mansion on show.

On Lisa Marie’s Thanksgiving dinners at Graceland, she shared: “The last tour was normally at 5pm and then we would take the ropes down and turn all the kitchen appliances on. Elvis’ original cooks would come and make what they used to make for them, which was quite amazing. And then when the last cook passed away we found a caterer that Lisa liked to come in and make all of her favourite foods.

“It really brought the house to life. It was a fun time to experience Graceland in that way and they’d all leave at like two or three in the morning and then we’d put the ropes back up, turn the equipment off, put the Plexiglass back on and tourists would come through the next day.”

On if Lisa Marie ever stayed upstairs at Graceland, which is off-limits to vacationers, over Thanksgiving she mentioned: “Lisa did a couple of times, but normally not.”

And together with her premature loss of life, will Elvis’ granddaughter Riley Keough and her teenage half-sisters sustain the Thanksgiving traditions on the mansion?

Angie mentioned: “I hope so. I think Riley and the girls have a different connection with Graceland than Lisa did. They’re a generation removed from it, they never knew Elvis, they only know Graceland through their mom and through what she shared with them about the house and their memories of the house being there with her.

“I think those things will still happen in time. I think right now family is still obviously processing everything and trying to find what their new normal is.”