A Facebook viewer singled out the blonde twin’s expression, saying it reminded them of her legendary grandfather. | Source: Facebook
A fan believed the sisters had inherited different features from their famous family, comparing Harper to Priscilla and Finley to Elvis. | Source: Instagram
A fan believed the sisters had inherited different features from their famous family, comparing Harper to Priscilla and Finley to Elvis. | Source: Instagram
But the birthday also carried a heartbreaking reminder. Lisa Marie Presley never got to see her youngest daughters become adults, although she had spent years imagining the women they would one day become.
Long before fans began comparing the twins to Elvis and Priscilla, Lisa Marie had her own hopes for Harper and Finley. She wanted them to grow up happy, protected, and free from the pressures of their famous last name. The photographs from their earliest years offer a look at the childhood she worked so hard to give them.
2008 — The Two Little Girls Who Changed Her World
Harper Vivienne Ann and Finley Aaron Love Lockwood were born on October 7, 2008, when Lisa Marie was 40. She already had 2 older children, Riley and Benjamin Keough, but welcoming twins after 2 years of trying to conceivebrought new happiness to the family.
With 2 teenagers and 2 newborns at home, Lisa Marie was settling into a very different family routine. She was delighted by the babies, enjoying the little moments that come with watching children discover the world for the first time.
The twins were born in Los Angeles by cesarean section. Their father, Michael Lockwood, is a guitarist and music producer whom Lisa Marie married in January 2006. | Source: Instagram/finleyl.ockwood
The twins were born in Los Angeles by cesarean section. Their father, Michael Lockwood, is a guitarist and music producer whom Lisa Marie married in January 2006. | Source: Instagram/finleyl.ockwood
2009 — Little Did She Know What Was Ahead
In an interview accompanying the twins’ first photographs, Lisa Marie couldn’t hide her happiness. “I have never been happier,” she said, describing the joy of having Harper and Finley at home.
She called life with 4 children “chaotic bliss,” a phrase many mothers would immediately recognize. Away from the cameras, Lisa Marie could simply enjoy being a mom to the babies she had waited so long to welcome.
Lisa Marie and Michael introduced their daughters in a January 2009 magazine feature when the babies were just over 3 months old. Priscilla Presley helped decorate their fairy-tale-themed nursery. | Source: People Magazine
