On Jan. 26, 1977, in the lounge area outside of his bathroom, Elvis Presley proposed to his girlfriend of two months, Ginger Alden, with a massive engagement ring. He was 41 and she was 20.

At the time of his death, Ginger Alden, then 21, was Elvis’s girlfriend. Reportedly, she found the singer’s body with his bottoms around his ankles. Alden wrote in her memoir: “His arms lay ...