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Graceland is in strong fingers with Riley Keough.

Since August 2023, the Daisy Jones & the Six actress, 35, has acted as the only real trustee of her late mother Lisa Marie Presley's property and the proprietor of her grandfather Elvis Presley's beloved Memphis, Tenn., mansion.

“My hope is to proceed what my grandmother [Priscilla Presley] did, after which my mom did, which is solely to protect our household dwelling,” Riley tells PEOPLE by way of electronic mail for this week's cowl story.

Keough additionally presides over the sub-trusts of her 15-year-old sisters Finley and Harper Lockwood, Lisa Marie's daughters from her 2006 to 2021 marriage to ex-husband Michael Lockwood.

This week's PEOPLE cowl story shares the primary excerpt from Lisa Marie's memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, which Riley accomplished following her mother's dying at age 54 in 2023 from a small-bowel obstruction that developed after she’d undergone bariatric surgical procedure a number of years prior.

In order to full the memoir, which she'd promised her mother she'd assist write prior to her dying, Riley listened to tapes of reminiscences Lisa Marie recorded.

“Because my mother was Elvis Presley’s daughter, she was constantly talked about, argued over and dissected,” Riley says “What she wished to do in her memoir, and what I hope I’ve executed in ending it for her, is to go beneath the journal headline thought of her and reveal the core of who she was. To flip her right into a three-dimensional human being: one of the best mom, a wild youngster, a fierce pal, an underrated artist, frank, humorous, traumatized, joyous, grieving — the whole lot that she was all through her outstanding life. I would like to give voice to my mom in a means that eluded her whereas she was alive.”

In the memoir, Lisa Marie talks about dad Elvis’ love and the way a lot she struggled after his dying; her romantic relationships; the balm of motherhood; the devastating dying of her son Benjamin, Riley’s brother, in 2020; and the redemptive start of her granddaughter, Riley’s 2-year-old daughter Tupelo.

“The tapes are an incredible portrait of the force of nature that she was,” Riley says. “Depending on the day and her mood, she can sound locked-in or distracted, vulnerable and open or annoyed and closed off, hopeful, angry, everything. You hear her in all her complications.”

Even about probably the most wrenching matters, Riley provides, “There wasn’t much we didn’t discuss, and I know that she knew how much I loved her, just as I know how much she loved me and my brother and sisters. I don’t feel like she or I left anything unsaid, which I feel profoundly grateful for.”

As Riley readies for public consideration to as soon as once more flip towards her mom’s story, she’s additionally trying forward to the day Tupelo, whom she shares together with her stuntman husband Ben Smith-Petersen, can learn it.

“This is one of the biggest privileges of the whole thing,” Riley says. “Not everyone has a book to read about their grandparents. That’s unique to our family. And it’s really a gift.”

From Here to the Great Unknown shall be launched Oct. 8 and is out there for preorder now, wherever books are bought.

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