Rishi's '厳格な，質素な 億万長者' mother-in-法律! Akshata Murty's mother Sudha is an 'underestimated 軍隊' who made her daughter 減少（する） out of a school play rather than buy her a 衣装 and has a '100% no shopping 政策'

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As the wife of 総理大臣 Rishi Sunak, Akshata Murty is one of the most 影響力のある women in the UK.

But when it comes to her personal life, the 億万長者 heiress, 42, relies ひどく on her mother Sudha, によれば those closest to Akshata.???

Earlier this week, Tatler published a new profile on the mother-of-two - which was 報道によれば given the green-light by Akshata herself.?

同様に as delving into how Ashata has redecorated the No 10 in a 'far いっそう少なく glitzy way' than Boris and Carrie Johnson, friends of the PM's wife also?述べるd children's author Sudha, 72, as the 'underestimated 軍隊 in her daughter's life'.?

Rishi Sunka and?Akshata pictured on their wedding day in Bangalore in 2009 with the bride's parents?Sudha and Narayana Murthy, who has been dubbed 'India's 法案 Gates'

Here FEMAIL delves into the author's doting yet '厳格な，質素な' parenting style and how she has 可決する・採択するd a '100% no shopping 支配する' - にもかかわらず her husband's 概算の £4bn fortune.

Born in August 1950, Sudha grew up in the small village of Shiggaon in south-west India and was the daughter of doctor R.H. Kulkarni and Vimala, a 地元の school teacher.

In her short story?A Tale of Many Tales, the author explains how her mother encouraged her to 令状 in a diary everyday - which she now credits as 'inadvertently 改善するing her 表現 and 追加するing clarity to her ideas.'

But にもかかわらず having a talent for 令状ing from an 早期に age, the mother-of-two 熟考する／考慮するd 電気の and Electronics 工学 at college and went on to 得る a postgraduate 資格 in Computer Science from the Indian 学校／設ける of Science.?

Children's author Sudha Murthy pictured at?Infosys' Library in Bangalore in 2022

Rishi Sunak and?Akshata Murthy pictured at a red carpet event in February 2022?

After 卒業, Sudha 適用するd for a 職業 as an engineer on Tata 自動推進の 生産／産物 line - にもかかわらず the fact the advert 特に said it would not consider 女性（の） applicants.?

によれば Tatler, Akshata's mother wrote a 'feisty postcard' to the CEO of the company JRD Tata, who was 'impressed' by her argument and gave her the 職業.?

It was while she was working for Tata that Sudha met her husband?Narayana Murthy, 76, who went on to 設立する the tech company Infosys, which is valued at $85bn.

The 出版（物） 報告（する）／憶測s that Sudha 手配中の，お尋ね者 to join the company in its 幼少／幼藍期 but that her husband, who has been dubbed 'India's 法案 Gates'?予定 to his 役割 開拓するing the country's tech にわか景気, 可決する・採択するd the 政策 that married couples should not work together.

In a 2013 essay,?Narayana Murthy 賞賛するd his wife for teaching their children the 'importance of 緊縮'. The couple pictured at?Infosys in March 2022

Akshata's younger brother Rohan Murty (centre) pictured in New York in February 2019

Family friend and 新聞記者／雑誌記者?Sriram Karri says this 誘発するd Sudha to 始める，決める up the company's charitable 創立／基礎 before going on to (1)偽造する／(2)徐々に進む her own career as a children's author.

Since 2000, Sudha has written 37 調書をとる／予約するs - 含むing How I Taught My Grandmother to Read, which features on India's school syllabus.?

After having A kshata in 1980 and then son Rohan three years later, the couple decided that their children should spent their 早期に years living with their paternal grandparents in Hubli while they 焦点（を合わせる）d on their careers in Mumbai.

In the 2013 調書をとる／予約する 遺産／遺物: Letters from 著名な Parents to Their Daughters, Akshata's father?Narayana explained how he would have to board a 計画（する） and then 雇う a car every 週末 to spend time his children but 'couldn't do without' seeing them.?

どこかよそで in the 深く，強烈に personal letter,?Narayana 賞賛するd his wife for teaching their children the 'importance of 簡単 and 緊縮'.?

Rishi Sunak pictured with Krishna, Anoushka and Akshata during his leadership （選挙などの）運動をする

Sudha (pictured in February 2008) has 以前 said one of her 重要な parenting lessons was to 'teach children that money doesn't make a person 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の'

The 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の wealth of the wider family of Rishi Sunak and his 億万長者 heiress wife

While the family were living together in Bangalore, the father explained how Akshata was given a 役割 in her school play which 要求するd a new dress.

At the time, Narayana was still setting up Infosys and he says they did have the 基金s to spend on 'n on-basic goods'.

As such, Akshata could not be part of the 業績／成果 - something her father says taught her an 'important lesson' and the value of '緊縮'.?

When the 商売／仕事 started to take off years later, the father says he 示唆するd the children were driven to school - but Sudha 主張するd they still take a?autorickshaw with their classmates.?

In a previous interview, Sudha said one of her 重要な parenting lessons was to 'teach children that money doesn't make a person 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の'.?

Rishi Sunak and wife Akshata are living in 'far いっそう少なく glitz' than previous 負かす／撃墜するing Street inhabitants Boris and Carrie Johnson , friends have （人命などを）奪う，主張するd

にもかかわらず the Tatler profile 強調する／ストレスing Mr Sunak and Ms Murty want a いっそう少なく flashy home, it says they have 'velvet sofas' in 'jewel colours' and 'opulent' curtains in the historic 所有物／資産／財産

What's more, Sudha told the 発言する／表明する of Fashion?in 2018 that she has 可決する・採択するd a '100% no shopping 政策' and hasn't bought a sari in over 20 years - instead choosing only to 購入（する） 必須のs.?

She explained: 'When my mother passed away 6 years ago it took us just half an hour to give away the things in her cupboard because she had just 8-10 sarees in it. When my grandma passed away 32 years ago, she had just 4 sarees.?

'They travelled light on this earth and since that has been part of my しつけ, I 設立する it easier to 可決する・採択する a simpler life with より小数の 所有／入手s.'

Perhaps taking inspiration from her own mother, Sudha 主張するd that there was no TV in the house to create an '環境 役立つ to learning' .

The father 解任するs how his wife 主張するd that the family spent two hours every night in each other's company doing something '生産力のある'.

Rishi and Akshata pictured outside 10 負かす／撃墜するing Street with their dog Nova in October 2022

So while did their schoolwork, Sudha and?Narayana would read history, mathematics or 工学 調書をとる／予約するs.?

In 1998, Akshata moved to Los Angeles to read 経済的なs and French at Claremont McKenna College before later 入会させるing at Stanford, where she met 未来 husband Rishi Sunak.?

In 2009, they married in Bengaluru, India - and すぐに afterwards, the couple moved from India Santa Monica, a beachside 郊外 of Los Angeles where Rishi helped 始める，決める up an 投資 会社／堅い called Theleme Partners.?

They still own a £5.5million penthouse 誇るing panoramic 見解（をとる）s of the 太平洋の Ocean where the family occasionally holidays.

It is part of a 所有物／資産／財産 大臣の地位 that now 含むs a £7million mews house in Kensington, a £1million flat nearby in Brompton Road and a £1.5million manor h ouse in Mr Sunak's Yorkshire 選挙区／有権者, which the couple 購入（する）d after he won William Hague's old seat at the 2015 選挙.

The couple (pictured in 2006) met while they were 熟考する／考慮するing at Stanford University in the US

The couple 株 two daughters?Krishna, 11, (middle 権利) and Anoushka, nine, (middle left)

Akshata then went on to create her own?eponymous fashion label in 2011 - a move that mystified her mother.

Speaking to Vogue India に引き続いて the brand's 開始する，打ち上げる, Akshata said: 'My mother, a no-nonsense engineer was always baffled why I would spend so much time creating different outfits from my wardrobe.'?

にもかかわらず her 抱擁する fortune, Tatler 報告（する）／憶測s that Sudha is '井戸／弁護士席-known for dressing 簡単に in 着せる／賦与するs belying her 巨大な wealth'.

によれば family friend Sriram Karri, Sudha 'doesn't understand' her daughter's love of fashion 'at all and they argue about it, but in a humorous way'.?

He 言及／関連d one argument when Akshata told her mother: '‘You can afford to wear a very simple dress because everyone knows what you stand for. I can’t afford to go to an interview in a bad dress!'?

In a 2012 interview with Live 造幣局, Sudha 認める that Akshata becoming a designer was 'unusual' but 'that is what she seemed to love'.

明確に a 手渡すs-on granmother, Sudha 明らかにする／漏らすd that she 'couldn't wait' for her daughter's children to be old enough to 高く評価する／（相場などが）上がる her stories.??

どこかよそで in the profile, friends 強調する／ストレスs the couple's 願望（する） to foster a lower-重要な image, even though they are renowned as の中で the richest in politics.

The couple have chosen to 占領する the smaller flat above No10 that they refurbished at their own expense when he was （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長. They live there with daughters Krishna, 11, and Anoushka, nine.

By contrast the Johnsons followed the example of other 最近の 首相s by using the larger apartment over No11, which they 精密検査するd with the help of an 内部の designer.

にもかかわらず the Tatler profile 強調する／ストレスing Mr Sunak and Ms Murty want a いっそう少なく flashy h ome, it says they have 'velvet sofas' in 'jewel colours' and 'opulent' curtains in the historic 所有物／資産／財産.

John Challis, an upholsterer from Mr Sunak's Richmond 選挙区／有権者 in North Yorkshire who has been 雇うd by the couple, 述べるd how George Osborne's 'very tired' furnishings in the No10 flat were updated.

'We made long, fully interlined curtains for all five windows overlooking the garden, 手渡す-pleated and held 支援する with 激しい co-ordinating tassels in red, gold and the ivory of the damask,' he said.

'The ornate cornicing was 手渡す-gilded and a rug was （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d to almost fill the room. Akshata was very 伴う／関わるd and keen to see how things are made. She is also not afraid of getting stuck in and helping either.'

There are 'opulent curtains in the 入り口 areas' and window seats in most rooms of the flat.

'Most of the sofas are velvet, in jewel colours, and the cushions also became a work of art,' Challis 追加するd.

Ms Murty is said to be 意図 on bringing 'more of the north to 負かす／撃墜するing Street'.

Allegra Stratton, Mr Sunak's ex-spin doctor and the wife of James Forsyth, his new political 長官, said: 'Yorkshire has looked after Akshata.'

She 追加するd: 'Over the summer, during the first leadership （選挙などの）運動をする, it was bruising for her, and the entire family hunkered 負かす／撃墜する in the 選挙区／有権者, and it put its arm around them.'

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