A self-proclaimed “hopeless romantic,” Rishi Sunak met his wife, Akshata Murty, while they were both completing business school at Stanford University.

The Power and the Tory

He’s the youngest British prime minister of the modern era. She’s thought to be wealthier than King Charles. Meet the U.K.’s newest power couple

By Michael Ashcroft

Rishi Sunak’s rise seemed inevitable. Then his approval ratings slumped dramatically when it was revealed, earlier this year, that his wife, Akshata Murty, daughter of an Indian software billionaire, had legally avoided an estimated $24 million in U.K. taxes. That scandal may have cost him his chance to succeed Boris Johnson, in September. It took the $300 billion fiasco that was Liz Truss to put Sunak back on top. —Bridget Arsenault

In a five-bedroom bungalow on a street named La Jennifer Way, a company that would change the world was just beginning to take shape. The year was 2004 and the unremarkable property with a small swimming pool that took up most of the backyard was in Silicon Valley, a part of California that was rapidly becoming synonymous with revolutionary business start-ups. Among the occupants of the house was one Mark Zuckerberg, who along with his housemates was busy building a company called Facebook. Before long, he would be one of the richest men on Earth.