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Thursday 31 May 2012

Early Life Of Aung San Suu Kyi

New Year's Day, 1972, Chelsea registry office, London. Aung San Suu Kyi and Michael Aris marry, age 26 and 25 respectively.















Aung San Suu Kyi at her wedding reception following a Buddhist blessing, at a family friend's home in London
















Aung San Suu Kyi on the snowy slopes of a mountain in Bhutan in 1971.
Further up the hill, at Taktsang temple, Michael had proposed to her.


















The future Nobel laureate riding a mule up a mountain in Bhutan, 1971














Her husband-to-be, Michael Aris, riding a yak in Bhutan, where he was a tutor to the royal family, 1971.














Aung San Suu Kyi’s mother, Daw Khin Kyi, meets her grandson, Alexander, for the first time on a family visit to Rangoon. Michael Aris stands at the back. 1974


A family picnic in Grantown-on-Spey. Aung San Suu Kyi with her husband (with the beard) and two sons Alexander and Kim. The woman in the back wearing the headscarf is MathanĂ© Fend, a famous pre-war singer who was Aung San Suu Kyi's most trusted friend and confidante, her 'emergency aunt'













1970/1980 on the lawn of her father-in-law’s house in Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland, Aung San Suu Kyi plays with her two sons, Alexander (in the braces) and Kim
















From 1973 to 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi devoted her time and energy to motherhood in Oxford where her husband was an academic



















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