Riley Keough on surprising 'kinship' between Sarah Ferguson and Lisa Marie Presley

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Riley Keough has opened up on the "kinship" that her late mother Lisa Marie Presley had with Sarah Ferguson, explaining that they had "similar" levels of fame and attention.

The Daisy Jones and the Six star told Lorraine about growing up as a part of the Presley dynasty and her mother's links with some of the most famous people of the time.

She also shared her childhood feelings towards her grandfather Elvis Presley and why she had been "angry" with him.

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Riley Keough has shared some fascinating revelations about her family life in finishing her late mother's memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown - and one of the most surprising was her friendship with Sarah Ferguson.

Speaking to Lorraine on Monday about Lisa Marie Presley's close bond with Sarah, Duchess of York, Keough explained that the level of fame of their families was "similar" and that they had a lot of shared experiences of media attention.

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Keough said: "The press in the 90s and early 00s as a woman was really intense to experience and I think they both had that same experience. The level of fame between the families was similar.

"They had a kind of kinship, they were both kind of wild ladies and really got along well, and were very close friends."

Lisa Marie died in January 2023 and her daughter has been finishing the memoir she started before her death, including chapters on her mother being the child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, and her two-year marriage to Michael Jackson.

Asked about the rumours that her mother's relationship with Jackson had all been for show, Keough replied: "I can understand that perspective. It was a very real marriage but I get that, I think people still think that about celebrities dating."

What else did Riley Keough say about her famous family?

As Elvis Presley's granddaughter, Keough's family stories will be of huge interest to many - but despite never having met him, she admitted to having felt "angry" with him as a child.

Elvis and Priscilla divorced when Lisa Marie was a small child and Keough said of her mother listening to Elvis's music: "She wouldn't often put it on, but if it was on, she would leave it on. We could feel it would affect her deeply, so in turn it would affect me and my brother and sisters because we could feel our mother's grief. We kind of had grief around Elvis as well.

"As a child the way that I processed it was, he left her. He left my mom and how could he do that. I was a kid, so that was my perception of it, so I remember feeling angry."

Keough also spoke about her mother's attachment to her childhood home, Graceland, saying "it was like a haven for her" and added of spending time in the upstairs rooms as a child: "We were trapped because we didn't want to disturb the tours. Part of the deal was we would say if we stayed the night we would be stuck in Elvis's room until around 4pm when the tours stopped."

The memoir also includes Keough's brother Benjamin's death in 2020 and that Lisa Marie kept his coffin at her home for two months while she grieved.

Keough explained: "The way she was able to grieve her father, she said having him in the house for a few days really helped her process it. His body was there, he wasn't just taken away. I can imagine mothers wanting that as opposed to their son being in a morgue.

"I just think that she was Lisa Marie Presley and she could do things that other people couldn't do."

Lorraine airs on ITV1 at 9am on weekdays.