Elvis Week is about to kick off at Graceland 46 years on from Elvis Presley’s loss of life on the Memphis Mansion on August 16, 1977.

For most of that yr the 42-year-old star, who suffered a deadly coronary heart assault on the bathroom in his upstairs lavatory, had been relationship Ginger Alden.

She’s changed his essential live-in lover of 4 and half years, Linda Thompson, who broke up amicably with Elvis round Christmas 1976.

Now 73, the previous Miss Tennessee mannequin nonetheless frequently posts tribute to her well-known outdated flame.

Most just lately she’s shared photographs of herself with Elvis on tour in August 1976, only a yr earlier than he died.

Linda wrote on her Instagram: “Throwback Thursday… on this day, August 3, 1976 - leaving Roanoke, Virginia, on our way to North Carolina for another show… I went on every single tour from July 6, 1972 through the end of November 1976. Me and the guys.”

It’s attention-grabbing that Elvis' ex highlights how she was on each tour throughout this era after being “erased” from Baz Luhrmann’s biopic that depicted her in archive footage for a split second.

Nevertheless, Linda is participating in Elvis Week 2023, which would be the first time ever she’s been a visitor of Graceland and Elvis Presley Enterprises, giving sold-out non-public excursions of the mansion and participating in a model new reside interview.

In a earlier publish, Linda wrote: “ It will be my honor to remember with reverence, dignity & humility the man who changed my life forever.

"Elvis was an icon…an innovator & a true original. He is a long-lasting legend.

"But most of all, he was paradoxically complicated in his childlike simplicity…a loving, vulnerable human being.”