Unseen Elvis Photos on Antiques Roadshow?

April 03, 2011

These amazing pictures of Elvis Presley hugging a smitten schoolgirl are seen in public for the first time today after lying hidden for 52 years. The photos show The King, then 24, relaxing on military service.
He is shown cuddling 15-year-old Sigrid Schulz and letting her wear his cap before signing records for fans.
Unseen pictures of Elvis Presley hugging a schoolgirl in his army days are revealed to BBC's Antiques Roadshow.

Sigrid handed the photos to a friend to prove she had met the singer at a German army base in 1959. But for many years they lay gathering dust in a drawer.
Tonight the photos, worth up to £7,000, will be shown on BBC1’s Antiques Roadshow. Presenter Fiona Bruce said: “These must be some of the most stunning pictures of a young Elvis I’ve ever seen. To think they’ve never been seen in public before.”
It was pure luck that young Sigrid met Elvis when her father took her to Bad Nauheim, where he was staying.
She found her hero in a relaxed mood while off duty. Elvis – Private Presley 53 310 761 – was stationed at nearby Friedberg having been drafted into the US Army in March 1958 and flown to Germany that October.
The woman, who owns the pictures and now lives in London but wishes to stay anonymous, was a childhood pal of Sigrid.
She recalled: “Sigrid, who was a year or two older than me, told me excitedly, ‘I’ve seen Elvis and I’ve touched him and he kissed me’.
“To prove it, she gave me copies of the photographs that her parents had taken. When word got out, there was a meteoric rise in her popularity.
“She had obviously been able to spend some time with Elvis and, being a very pretty girl, seems to have impressed him. She was kissed by him and wouldn’t wash her cheek for a week.
“He gave her a rose, which we pressed and she shared the petals with me. I kept the dried petals in foil under my bed. I still have them. Sigrid and I lost touch long ago but I kept the photographs safely in a drawer and brought them out when the Antiques Roadshow came to London.”
Roadshow memorabilia expert Hilary Kay said: “I’ve never seen Elvis Presley look more gorgeous. It is a wonderful collection and the thing is nobody knew these photographs existed.
“Cumulatively these are really valuable – worth between £5,000 and £7,000. The fan base for Elvis is still really strong.”
The photos were taken shortly before Elvis met wife-to-be Priscilla Beaulieu, who was just 14.
This period was also thought to be when he was first introduced to drugs that blighted his later career.
He was discharged from the Army in 1960.
He and Priscilla wed in 1967 but divorced six years later. He died aged 42 in 1977.
Antiques Roadshow, BBC1 tonight at 8pm

UPDATE:
My friend Tony wrote me this, " I was so looking forward to seeing the unseen pictures tonight but alas, it was another false alarm.See attached uncropped and signed original of the top photo used in the story, from the 1993 book. What a shame that they were NOT unseen or unpublished :-( They were in fact published in 1993."