Family and Education
Isabel dos Santos is the oldest daughter of Angola's President José Eduardo dos Santos and Tatiana Kukanova from Azerbaijan, his first wife. In London, where her mother now lives, she studied electrical engineering and business management at King's College. There she met her husband from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sindika Dokolo, the son of a millionaire from Kinshasa and his Danish wife. They got married in 2003, in Luanda. The wedding, a 4 million-dollar party with 1000 guests, was one of the largest weddings in the history of the country. Reports in Portuguese newspapers said that the guest were flown in from France and Portugal without visas. Best man was the former Minister of Petroleum of Angola, Desidério Costa.
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