Ben Smith-Petersen, the actress’ husband, shared a tribute on behalf of his wife, who was seated in the front row, during a memorial service for Lisa Marie Presley at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, on Sunday morning.
“I wish I could love my daughter the same way you did for me, my brother, and my sisters. I’m grateful that you gave me my heart, my courage, my humor, my manners, my temper, my wildness, and my tenacity. Your heart gave birth to me, to my sisters, to my brother, to my parents, and to my grandparents “Smith-Petersen remarked as he read his wife’s remarks about his mother-in-law.
Smith-Petersen, who wed Keough eight years ago, did not provide any other information, including the precise date or name of their daughter’s birth. A representative for Keough, 33, told PEOPLE the couple had a girl in 2022.
While filming Mad Max: Fury Road in 2012, Keough, who is the daughter of the late Presley and musician Danny Keough, got to know Smith-Petersen. Although they were briefly introduced on-site, the two didn’t begin dating until re-shoots in Australia a year later.
In a 2022 essay for Vogue Australia, Keough stated, “My hubby is such a lovely person.” “He is composed, dependable, powerful, and sensitive. He is my closest pal.”
The two rapidly fell in love, and in 2014, Keough and the Australian stuntman announced their engagement. On Facebook, Smith-Petersen posted a picture of Keough at the time wearing a diamond ring with the message, “So that happened.”
In February 2015, little than a year later, the pair exchanged vows. Keough and Smith-Petersen wed for the first time in Nepal, where they were constructing a school at the time of their wedding in the United States.
As Keough wrote in her column for Vogue Australia, “The families knew we were getting married and they said, Let us throw you a Hindu wedding.” “That wedding was especially wonderful and in some ways more intimate since it was so lovely. I cried during the wedding. I wasn’t as present at my larger wedding because I was a little apprehensive. However, it was just as beautiful.”
The couple, who share identical tattoos, later wed once more on February 4, 2015, in Napa Valley, California.
The couple’s parenting news was revealed after Keough uploaded a vintage black-and-white photo of herself and her mother on Instagram on Friday.
In her first comment to the world following the passing of her mother, the sole child of rock legend Elvis Presley, Keough left a little remark to go with the photo: “,” she wrote.
Presley passed away on January 12 after being taken to a hospital in Los Angeles for what might have been a heart arrest. 54 years old.
Along with Keough, the singer-songwriter is survived by her mother, Priscilla Presley, a 77-year-old actress and businesswoman, and twins Finley and Harper Lockwood, both 14 years old. Benjamin Keough, Presley’s son, died before her in 2020 when he committed suicide at the age of 27.
