Who was Aung San Suu Kyi’s late husband Michael Aris?
AUNG San Suu Kyi is a well known name around the world thanks to her career as a politician, diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
But in the 90s she suffered personal tragedy when her husband Michael Aris passed away.
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Michael Aris is the late husband of Aung San Suu Kyi
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Who was Michael Aris?
Michael Vaillancourt Aris was born on March 27, 1946.
He was an English historian who wrote and lectured on Bhutanese, Tibetan and Himalayan culture and history.
After being educated at Worth School in Sussex and upon completing his degree in modern history at St Cuthbert’s Society, Durham University in 1967, Aris spent six years as the private tutor of the children of the royal family of the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan.
He was an academic and lecturer in Asian history at St John’s College and later at St Antony’s College, Oxford.
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Michael was an English historian
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How did Michael Aris die?
Aris died of prostate cancer on his 53rd birthday in 1999.
He passed away at his home in Oxford.
In the last years before his death, he helped to establish a specialist Tibetan and Himalayan Studies centre at Oxford.
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The couple with their children
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When did Michael Aris marry Aung San Suu Kyi?
In 1972, Aris married Aung San Suu Kyi, who he had met while at the university.
They wed in a Buddhist ceremony.
After spending a year in Bhutan, they settled in North Oxford.
Did Michael Aris and Aung San Suu Kyi have children together?
The couple had two children together.
They raised their sons Alexander Aris and Kim Aris in North Oxford.
Alexander is 47 and his brother Kim is 43.
Suu Kyi returns to Oxford
