Post date: Jun 19, 2012 10:50:15 PM
At Oxford University, where she is to receive an honorary doctorate on Wednesday, she was greeted by Chancellor Chris Patten.
A crowd of wellwishers sang "Happy Birthday" to her, echoing an earlier rendition by a 1,000-strong audience at the London School of Economics.
Myanmar's Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi visits Oxford on her 67th birthday on Tuesday and is greeted by an exuberant crowd and the Chancellor of Oxford University, which she attended in the 1970s.
OXFORD, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (JUNE 19, 2012) (POOL) - Myanmar's Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi began an emotional visit to Britain on Tuesday (June 19), where she left her family 24 years ago and took up her famous struggle against the military dictatorship in her homeland.
In 2010, the military in Myanmar gave way to a quasi-civilian government, earning it the suspension of most European sanctions and paving the way for Suu Kyi's trip abroad.
The pro-democracy campaigner spent much of the last two decades under house arrest in Myanmar, costing her time with her two sons and the chance to be with her husband, Michael Aris, before he died of cancer in 1999.
On the latest leg of her 17-day European tour, she will address both houses of Britain's parliament, a rare honour, on Thursday.