Regina Leung

Regina Leung Tong Ching-yee (; born 5 February 1957) is a former solicitor in Hong Kong. She is the wife of Leung Chun-ying, the former Chief Executive of Hong Kong. Early life and marriage Regina Tong was born at Tsan Yuk Hospital, the teaching hospital of University of Hong Kong in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong, on 5 February 1957 to a merchant Tong Chi-ming and mother Kwok Chor-gar. She changed her name to Regina Ching Yee Higgins, as appeared on the certificate of marriage with Leung Chun-ying. Lawyers speculated that Tong could be adopted by her British relative, Kwok Cheo One who also named Higgins Cheo One, during her study in Britain to avoid high tuition fees. She was also a British citizen. She studied law at the Bristol Polytechnic in 1978 and met Leung Chun-ying, a fresh graduate, at an alumni gathering. They married on 7 August 1981 and had three children: Leung Chuen-yan, Leung Chai-yan and Leung Chung-yan. In 1983, she received the qualifications to practice law in Hong Kong until she retired in 1999. In 1992, she formed an investment company with her mother and changed her name back to Regina Tong. She resided in London during the 2000s to take care of her children who all studied in Britain at the time. Spouse of Chief Executive Regina Leung became the Spouse of Chief Executive after her husband Leung Chun-ying won the 2012 Chief Executive election. As the spouse of the Chief Executive, Regina Leung took positions of patron and president of many non-governmental organisations, following former Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen's wife, Selina Tsang Pou Siu-mei, and Tung Chee-hwa's wife, Betty Tung Chiu Hung-ping. Leung is the president of the Community Chest of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Girl Guides Association. However, Hong Kong Red Cross had been also traditionally invite spouses of the Chief Executive to be president, decided not to invite Leung as the new president but invite retired judge Yang Ti-liang instead.