From Bengaluru's first family to UK's first lady: The hidden Murty

Akshata Murty, the first lady of the United Kingdom, is 'namma hudugi' (our girl) from Bengaluru. Born in her mother Sudha Murthy's hometown of Hubballi in northern Karnataka, few would have foreseen that 42 years later, this Indian citizen's home would be No 10 Downing Street.

- Shilpa Phadnis

After doing her schooling in Bengaluru, she moved to Claremont McKenna College in California where she graduated with a dual major in economics and French and later did a fashion designing diploma from Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. She had short work stints at Deloitte and Unilever before she went on to pursue her MBA at Stanford where she met Rishi Sunak.

Of the two Murthy children, Akshata has inherited the entrepreneurial genes of her famous family. "I come from a family of entrepreneurs my mother on the social side through the foundation world and my father on the corporate side. I was raised with a view that entrepreneurship can change people's lives," Akshata was quoted in an article on the Stanford Graduate School of Business website.