Aung San Suu Kyi: the private photo album

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 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 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

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