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.