Son of former Hong Kong leader CY Leung marries Finnish girlfriend in ‘simple but grand’ home ceremony
- Leung Chuen-yan marries Mimmi Mononen, a Finnish postdoctoral fellow in life sciences, in home ceremony
- Former chief executive CY Leung announces couple tied knot in Facebook post, says pair met while working at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden
The former chief executive announced the couple had tied the knot in a brief post on his Facebook page. Leung is now a vice-chairman of the country’s top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
“My son, Chuen-yan, got married today. The wedding ceremony was held at home. It was simple but grand,” he said.
Leung Chuen-yan married Mimmi Mononen, a Finnish postdoctoral fellow in life sciences.
“[Chuen-yan and Mimmi] met when they were working at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. [Mimmi] had worked in Shanghai for three years. They will live in Hong Kong after marriage,” Leung said.
Founded in 1810, Karolinska Institutet is one of the world’s foremost medical universities and its Nobel Assembly has selected Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine since 1901.
In 2016, the institute launched its first research centre outside of Sweden in Hong Kong. Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine, located at the Science Park, focuses on innovation in the fields of biomedical engineering, gene-editing, RNA technology and bioinformatics.
One of the pictures uploaded to Leung Chun-ying’s Facebook page showed the wedded couple in what appeared to be his home as they performed a traditional Chinese wedding ritual. The newlyweds were shown kneeling down to serve tea to the former city leader and his wife, Regina.
No other guests was in the pictures.
Mononen wore a red sleeveless dress with a qipao-style standing collar. In Chinese culture, the colour red symbolizes happiness, good fortune and success.
Among the well-wishers who left congratulatory messages on the Facebook post were former civil service minister Patrick Nip Tak-kuen, ex-housing and transport minister Anthony Cheung Bing-leung, former Hong Kong deputy to National People’s Congress Witman Hung Wai-man, celebrity writer Chris Wat Wing-yin and businessman Simon Wong Ka-wo.
Apart from his son, Leung Chun-ying has two daughters.
