Kwa Geok Choo
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Kwa Geok Choo (Chinese: 柯玉芝; pinyin: Kē Yùzhī) was one of the partners in law firm, Lee & Lee.
She is also the wife of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore and a former pupil of Singapore's Methodist Girls' School and Cambridge University. In Lee's biography, he stated that he first met Kwa in 1944 at a party, and courted her from 1946. Kwa married Lee Kuan Yew on September 30, 1950, and they have two sons and one daughter. Her eldest son is Lee Hsien Loong and her second son is Lee Hsien Yang.
During Lee's years as Prime Minister and Senior Minister, Kwa was frequently seen with her husband, especially on diplomatic trips and meetings with other foreign ministers.
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