Prince Harry laughed at Elvis' Graceland décor and says interior designer 'must have been on acid'
dailyrecord.co.ukPrince Harry speaks a lot about his travels in his new memoir Spare and in one chapter, he speaks about visiting the home of Elvis Presley.
The Duke of Sussex travelled to Graceland, Elvis' Tennessee estate, while on a trip to America to attend the wedding of his and Prince William's close pal Guy Pelly to Holiday Inn heiress Lizzy Wilson, writes The Mirror.The wedding party travelled to Miami for Guy's stag party and en route back, they decided to stop in Tennessee ahead of the wedding to visit Graceland.Photographs which were taken at the time show Harry touring the estate alongside his brother William and their cousins Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie.
Harry recalls the trip in his memoir and appears to scoff at the estate, which is now a major tourist attraction and said it reminded him of his "badger sett" - a lower ground floor flat he previously lived in at Kensington Palace.In Spare, he writes: "People variously called the house a castle, a mansion, a palace, but it reminded me of the badger sett.
Dark, claustrophobic. I walked around saying: The King lived here, you say? Really?"I stood in one tiny room with loud furniture and shag carpet and thought: The King’s interior designer must’ve been on acid."The Hound Dog singer lived at Graceland after buying the estate in 1957 until his death in August 1977.
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