He is always on her mind.

Priscilla Presley couldn’t mourn her late ex-husband, Elvis Presley, in peace when the rock and roll icon was laid to rest at his Graceland mansion 48 years ago.

“There was no privacy for those of us closest to Elvis, including the family,” Priscilla, 80, recalled in her second memoir, “Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis,” which was released Tuesday. 15

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“People and cameras surrounded the property,” she continued. “Mourners waited to be admitted to the house for a public viewing of Elvis’s open casket.”

Elvis, who died of cardiac arrest on Aug. 16, 1977, at the age of 42, was given a public funeral at his Memphis, Tennessee, home two days after his shocking passing.

The ceremony was nationally televised, and thousands of the “Blue Sued

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