IT is Lord and Lady Montagu as you have never seen them before.

The Hampshire peer and his wife put on their Blue Suede Shoes and saluted the King of Rock ’n’ Roll.

Lady Montagu threw an Elvis Presley party at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, to celebrate her 70th birthday year.

Surrounded by Elvis look-alikes, Lady Montagu was dressed in a white rhinestone-encrusted jump suit made for her by her Budapest-based designer Kati Zoob.

Even her two springer spaniels, Sika and Douglas, got in on the act by turning up in mini capes and jewelled collars.

Lord Montagu, 86, was also wearing an Elvis cape.

The 400 guests included Dire Straits musician John Illsley, media personality Liz Brewer and DJ Ed ‘Stewpot’ Stewart. Jim Watson, the man who discovered DNA, was also there.

The tribute artist was Lee Memphis King.

Lady Montagu says she came to “adore” Elvis in her early thirties after watching a film of him performing in Las Vegas.

More recently she was listening to one of his hits on the car stereo when she decided to make him the theme of her birthday bash.

Lady Montagu turns 70 in December but her astrologer advised her that spring would be a good time to hold the party.

A Beaulieu spokesman said: “All her guests entered into the spirit of the occasion and we had a great spectrum of Elvis Presleys, including Teddy Boys and US Army members.

“Guests were served Elvis’s favourite food – peanut and jelly canopes and meatloaf and hot dogs, washed down with his favourite drink, Pepsi Cola.

“There was also an amazing Elvis-style birthday cake.”

Lady Montagu spent more than a year planning the event.

Interviewed by the Daily Echo in December 2011 she said: “I’m a great Elvis fan. I was in the car, singing along to Blue Suede Shoes on the stereo, and I thought ‘That’s it, I’ll have an Elvis party’.”

She asked guests to make any donations to the National Motor Museum Trust and the Beaulieu-based Countryside Education Trust.