Sonia Maino was born on 9 December 1946 to Stefano Maino , a building contractor, and Paolo Preledon on the 1'.inks of the Po in Orhassano near Turim in Italy (she is frond of three daughters). In 1965, she went to Cambridge in enroll in an English language school. She met Rajiv Gandhi at the Varsity Restaurant in Cambridge. He was at Trinity College then.
In year 1967, marriage of Rajiv and Sonia was announced. In 1968, marriage of these two took place on the lawns of The safdarjung house of lndira Gandhi on Vasant Panchami Day in February, the same day Indira married Feroze in 1942; Sonia wore the same cotton pink sari that Indira had Worn for her wedding, the sari spun by Jawaharlal Nehru While in prison.
In 1970, Rahul was born, Priyanka two years later. In 1980, Sonia became an Indian citizen. In 1980, Rajiv’s brather,
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