Macau Casino King Daughter
Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho’s daughter, Sabrina Ho, 28, got engaged in June this year to Harvard student Thomas Xin Qilong, 21. The couple had an engagement ceremony, with Thomas’ family giving a S$100mil wedding dowry that includes stacks and stacks of gold bangles, diamond jewellery, Hermès goods and top-grade wine and abalone.
SJM’s most lavish casino, the 12-year-old Grand Lisboa, a 48-story building shaped like a lotus flower, remains one of Macau’s most prominent destinations. But, ironically, the casino king did. Macau casino magnate Stanley Ho dies aged 98 They married in the 1940s, giving Ho privileged access to the colony’s tight-knit Macanese community. Angela Ho, daughter of Ho Hung-sun and Clementina.
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Sabrina, who is Stanley’s daughter with his fourth wife Angela Leong, was pregnant at the time of her engagement. She has since given birth to a daughter nicknamed “Fried Egg”.
According to Apple Daily, she had initially wanted to throw a lavish wedding banquet at a castle in Portugal next year, but has since postponed it to June 2021 and moved the location to an even more prestigious place: the British Museum in London. - 2/4
The museum was chosen by Sabrina as she has been its patron for the past five years. She also studied in the UK, and explained that she’d be holding her wedding in London and skipping Hongkong as the location is more convenient for her many UK-based friends. Judging by her OTT engagement party, we’re guessing the wedding banquet will make the Crazy Rich Asians wedding scene look like a budget affair.
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Apple Daily reported that Sabrina had postponed her wedding ceremony ’cos she was busy with taking care of her kid and work commitments (she runs an art events company on top of philanthropy work). Her doctors had also advised her against travelling soon after giving birth.
Pushing the date back by two years also means that Sabrina’s daughter can attend her mum’s museum wedding as a flower girl. “I hope that Fried Egg can interact more with art in her childhood, and I’ll have more time to prepare for my wedding so that everything goes well,” said Sabrina. - 4/4
Sabrina’s younger brother, Mario Ho, was just as extra when it comes to his own engagement. He proposed in May this year to former Victoria’s Secret supermodel Ming Xi with 99,999 roses at his family-owned Shanghai mall, in front of a thousand envious onlookers.