Elvis brother: Their beautiful Terminal conversation 'Somehow he knew he was going to die'

ELVIS PRESLEY'Due south half-brother David Stanley spent 17 years by The King'southward side and was in that location the nighttime he died. David revealed their concluding-e'er conversation days before the star'southward death at Graceland and was sure Elvis was trying to tell him goodbye: "He said he would never see me again." Did Elvis somehow know what was going to happen?

David was just v years one-time when his mother Dee Stanley married The King's father Vernon Presley. For the next 17 years, he grew up around Elvis, living next door to Graceland and becoming a trusted member of the star's inner circle, The Memphis Mafia. David described his step-blood brother's final days, the last time they spoke, and why he believes Elvis knew he was going to die. SCROLL Downwardly TO WATCH THE INTERVIEW

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David Stanley started working for Elvis in 1972 while he was still a teenager, beginning as a personal aide and then as security, both at home and on tour. He stayed by The King's side until the star's expiry in 1977.

In a televised interview, David talked about the last time he saw Elvis in his bedroom at Graceland and the strange conversation they had.

It was but after David joined anybody in the bathroom two days after on August 16, staring in stupor at the star'south torso on the floor, that he realisedhis half-brother had been trying to say cheerio.

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Elvis baby brother describes The King's final days and death

Elvis babe brother describes The King's final days and death (Image: GETTY)

Elvis with father Vernon, step-mother Dee and her sons

Elvis with father Vernon, footstep-mother Dee and her sons (Image: GETTY)

David said: "The last time I saw Elvis live was two days earlier he passed away. I walked into his room and he was reading his Bible. He said 'David, let me ask you a question, who am I'?

"I laughed at him and said 'well you're the king', and he said 'no in that location's only one king' equally he held up his Bible."

This was a abiding game with the star, who always corrected people when they called him past his famous nickname.

David added: "I said 'I'm going out of town I'll be back for the tour' and he said 'I just want yous to know that I love you, David. I won't always meet you again – the next time I see you will be in a college place in a dissimilar aeroplane'."

Although the words now seem chilling with hindsight, at the fourth dimension David attributed them to Elvis' obsession with spirituality and that he was speaking metaphorically.

Elvis in 1975

Elvis in 1975 (Image: GETTY)

Elvis step-brother David Stanley

Elvis step-blood brother David Stanley (Epitome: SG)

Over the previous few years, Elvis' immature hairdresser Larry Geller had become the star's spiritual adviser, introducing him to a new world of modern philosophies and beliefs, which the star added to his ain deeply-rooted traditional Christian faith.

He built up a huge library, something which his last girlfriend Ginger Alden claims had caused friction with Priscilla. When he died, Elvis was reading a volume virtually the Shroud of Turin on the toilet.

David said: "Now some say, and this is null new, 'I believe Elvis took himself out'. At present I believe Elvis knew he was on his way out, but whether he deliberately got upward that day and did that to himself I don't know."

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    Although reading in the bath does not sound like the behaviour of a man who knew his stop was nigh or was trying to hasten it himself, David (and fifty-fifty Priscilla) have suggested that the star was somehow complicit in his ain death.

    In another interview, David explained his saddened reaction to his brother's death: "Information technology didn't surprise me because I knew that these mediations were going to go him.

    "I knew that one solar day 1 of u.s. wouldn't be there to save him, because I had saved him a couple of times earlier... I approximate it was a moment when he made sure nobody could salve him."