the unseen photo album...of Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar

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The unseen photo album of
Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar
My friends,
These photographs are priceless! They were
forwarded to me by a friend but the source of which is
unknown to us.
New Year’s Day, 1972, Chelsea registry office in London.
Aung San Suu Kyi and Michael Aris marry, aged 26 and 25 respectively.
Aung San Suu Kyi at her wedding reception, following
a Buddhist blessing at a family friend’s London home.
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 in 1974.
Michael Aris stands at the back.
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 Mathané 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.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s husband, Michael Aris, an academic and specialist in Tibetan
and Himalayan Studies, in his study at St John's College, Oxford.
From 1973 to 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi devoted her time and energy to motherhood
in Oxford where her husband was an academic.
Having a barbecue on a family holiday to the Norfolk Broads in the early 1980s
65th BIRTHDAY of DAW AUNG SAN
SUU KYI was held on 19 June 2010
while still being confined by the junta
in her dilapidated compound.