Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York penned a touching tribute to Lisa Marie Presley after the singer died on Thursday, revealing their shocking friendship.
“I say whats up to you on a regular basis and I really like you my sissy and I’ll proceed to say whats up to you on a regular basis,” Fergie, 63, captioned an Instagram picture the place the 2 hugged lovingly on Friday.
“You had been my sissy, a tremendous mom to Ben, Riley, Harper and Finley and a perfectly loving daughter to Priscilla. You have been my devoted pal for a few years and I’m right here for your loved ones to assist and love them. I’m deeply saddened my sissy, you might be in my coronary heart.”
A pal near Prince Andrew’s ex-wife informed Page Six that the 2 girls initially met when Lisa Marie lived in Sussex, England together with her ex-husband Michael Lockwood again in 2010.
“They hit it off immediately, they simply appeared to know one another,” the pal informed us, explaining that they frolicked in the identical circle as Bob Geldof, his spouse, Jeanne Marine, Jeff Beck and his spouse, Sandra.
“They grew to become fairly shut and stored in contact when Lisa Marie moved again to the States. And she was very supportive of the Duchess when she had powerful instances, notably when she was caught up within the ‘Fake Sheikh’ scandal (In 2010, Fergie was recorded providing entry to her ex-husband, Prince Andrew, for cash).
The supply additional informed us that Lisa Marie was “one of many few individuals who actually reached out to her,” claiming that “she provided her a refuge” in Hawaii to climate the storm.
“The Duchess by no means forgot that, Lisa Marie went out of her approach to be a supportive pal,” the pal informed us. “They actually bonded as sisters.”
In truth, the 2 had been so shut that that they had spoken a number of weeks in the past “about [Lisa Marie’s] daughter Riley working alongside the Duchess on movie initiatives as her first grownup novel is being changed into a TV sequence or movie.”
Fergie — who “regarded Lisa Marie as household” — “is de facto very upset” after Elvis Presley’s solely daughter died after struggling a cardiac arrest at age 54.
Lisa Marie Presley 1968-2023
A number of hours after she was rushed to West Hills Hospitals and Medical Center in California and positioned in a medically-induced coma, her mom, Priscilla Presley, introduced the tragic information.
“It is with a heavy coronary heart that I need to share the devastating information that my stunning daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla, 77, mentioned in a press release Thursday night time. “She was essentially the most passionate, robust and loving girl I’ve ever recognized.”
Page Six later reported that Lisa Marie had coded a number of instances after her preliminary arrest.
On Friday, a household rep confirmed that the only inheritor to Elvis’ property can be buried subsequent to her beloved son Benjamin, who died by suicide again in 2020, at Graceland, in Memphis, Tenn.
She is survived by her daughter Riley, 33, and twins Harper and Finely, 14.
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