‘Unforgettable’: friends pay tribute to Hong Kong’s Leung Chai-yan
UK boarding school Wycombe Abbey classmates remember fondly late elder daughter of ex-leader Leung Chun-ying, Chai-yan, who died suddenly last week
Friends have paid tribute to the late Leung Chai-yan, daughter of former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying, saying she will be remembered as a “kind, clever, animal-loving and caring woman” who loved her Chinese heritage deeply.
She was “much more than a public figure”, Leung’s former schoolmates from Wycombe Abbey, a private boarding school for girls in Buckinghamshire, England, said in a heartfelt letter sent to the Post.
She was “intelligent and studious, with the potential to pursue whatever career she wanted”, they wrote. Among those who paid tribute in the letter were Arch Hades, Ella Robertson McKay and Yvette Tetteh.
Leung attended the school between 2004 and 2010.
“Chai-yan Leung was our friend before she became a public figure,” they said.
“We knew her as our boarding school dorm mate and, later, neighbour with a unique sense of humour, a mercurial energy and a brilliance that made her unforgettable.”