According to the headline of the British "Daily Mail" on October 29, local time, four days after Rishi Sunak became the 57th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sunak moved, and they moved from Kensington Townhouse to Apartment 10 Downing Street. Early Saturday morning, the media first photographed first lady Akshata Murty, a fashion designer "richer than a king" at 10 Downing Street, alone directing moving company workers to move furniture into the house, dressed casually and without her prime minister's husband.
In the photo published by The Post, 42-year-old Akshata wears a light gray pullover sweater covered with a black fluffy fur horse clip and gray glossy leggings on the lower body, showing her legs are very slender. The Prime Minister's wife seems to be very fond of wearing slippers, and at this time, she has a pair of white fur slippers on her feet, and the day before, she was photographed wearing a black sandal when she appeared at the door of Kensington villa.
Two Bishop's Move moving trucks were parked in front of 10 Downing Street, and Akshata kept talking to the porters to guide them in moving. Porters can be seen carrying a double mattress, something that looks like a barbecue grill, and a huge upright piano through the iconic black door at 10 Downing Street.
The new prime minister, Rishi Sunak, never appeared, and it seems that the hostess alone was responsible for the move of the family of four. Interestingly, the media photographed the new chairman of the Conservative Party, Nadhim Zahami, walking cheerfully past in a full navy jersey, a green hat and a tablet in his hand, but seemed to have no intention of stepping forward to help.
(On the 28th, Akshata on the doorstep of Kensington)
It is worth mentioning that this is not the first time the Sunak family has stayed in a Downing Street apartment. Earlier, when Sunak was Boris Johnson's chancellor, he lived here with his wife and two daughters, but because his two daughters, aged 11 and 9, attended a private school in west London with an annual tuition fee of 22,000 pounds (about 190,000 yuan), they had just moved their family back to their townhouse in Kensington six months ago, which was worth 6 million pounds (about 50.31 million yuan), which was more than the "living conditions" of the prime minister's residence. Obviously also to be good.
It was precisely because of the children's schooling that the media originally thought that the Sunak family would divide their time between Downing Street and Kensington and would not live exclusively in Downing Street, but Sunak said that they would move back to Downing Street, where his wife Akshata used to live very "happily".
Another thing to mention is that the Sunak family moved back to the apartment at 10 Downing Street, where he used to be Chancellor of the Exchequer, not the prime minister's residence where all prime ministers have lived since 1997, which is located at 11 Downing Street, which is more spacious than apartment 10, and has just been renovated by Boris Johnson and his wife Kelly Johnson for 200,000 pounds (about 1.7 million yuan). The handmade wallpaper pictured above alone that is said to turn golden in specific light costs 2,250 pounds (about 19,000 yuan), and the British people say angrily that it is really expensive and ugly.
Sunak and his wife Akshata were classmates at Stanford University while studying for an MBA, and the highly educated couple are undoubtedly the richest couple in the prime minister's house who have lived in Downing Street, with a family fortune of 730 million pounds (about 6.1 billion yuan), Akshata's father Narayana Murthy, India's No. 6 richest man, and younger brother Rohan Murthy started her own artificial intelligence company after graduating with a Ph.D. from Harvard, her mother, Sudha, the first female engineer at India's largest car company, and her uncle, Shrinivas Kullkarni, a world-renowned astronomer.
The British prime minister's full salary is £164,080 (about 1.38 million yuan) a year, and the wealthy Prime Minister Sunak must decide whether to withdraw this salary or voluntarily cut his salary as a "symbolic gesture" in response to Britain's cost-of-living crisis, and the British are waiting to see.
SOURCE: DAILYMAIL, BING
Editor: Zhang Xiao