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Priscilla Presley recalled attending Elvis' funeral at Graceland in her new book Softly, as I Leave You: Life After Elvis

In the book, Priscilla writes that there were "crowds of strangers" waiting to pay their respects at a public viewing of the rocker's open casket

Elvis died of in 1977

Priscilla Presley is reflecting on the day of ex Elvis Presley 's funeral.

In her new memoir Softly, as I Leave You: Life After Elvis , Priscilla, 80, recalled attending Elvis' funeral in August 1977, which was held at Graceland, his Memphis estate.

"There was no privacy for those of us closest to Elvis, including the family. People and cameras surrounded the property. Mourners waited to be admitted to the house for a public viewing of Elvis’s open casket," she writes of the p

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