guardian.co.uk Aung San Suu Kyi’s Burmese passport, issued in New York on 9 December 1970. She refused to get a British passport - though she was entitled to one, being married to the British academic Michael Aris. It was and still is illegal in Burma to have dual nationality Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s Burmese passport, issued in New York on 9 December 1970. She refused to
get a British passport - though she was entitled to one, being married to the British academic
Michael Aris. It was and still is illegal in Burma to have dual nationality
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection
New Year’s Day, 1972, Chelsea registry office in London. Aung San Suu Kyi and Michael Aris
marry, aged 26 and 25 respectively
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection
Aung San Suu Kyi at her wedding reception, following a Buddhist blessing at a family friend’s
London home
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection
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
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection
The future Nobel laureate riding a mule up a mountain in Bhutan, 1971
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection
Her husband-to-be, Michael Aris, riding a yak in Bhutan, where he was a tutor to the royal
family, 1971
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection
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
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection
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'
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection
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
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection
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
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection
From 1973 to 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi devoted her time and energy to motherhood in Oxford
where her husband was an academic
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection
Having a barbecue on a family holiday to the Norfolk Broads in the early 1980s
Photograph: Private Aris Family Collection
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