Years after this moment, journalist Chris Hitchens revealed Frank has a candid conversation with Elvis, with whom he had become friends.
He said: “Tom Jones and I met up for a drink with him in New York and he told us that he had just been on the phone to Elvis.”
He then described Frank telling the pair: “’When I called the hospital in Memphis, the girl on the switchboard asked, ‘Who’s calling?’ and when I replied, ‘Frank Sinatra’ I fully expected her to say, ‘Oh, yeah, and I’m the Queen of England’ or some such dumb line.
“‘But she must have recognised my voice because, a few seconds later, Elvis came on the line.
