Aung San Suu Kyi due back in UK after 24 years Her husband, Michael Aris, has since died of prostate cancer and she was unable to see her two sons, Alexander, 39 and Kim, 34, grow up. Asked about the impending visit, Suu Kyi told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme yesterday: "I am looking forward to it, very simply. I want to see old friends again and to rediscover old places where I have been happy. I hope it will not be tinged with sadness. The family is expected to throw a party to mark her 67th birthday in Oxford tomorrow, which may be attended by Kim Aris's two children, James, 13 and Jasmine, 10. Mr Aris was pictured greeting his mother in Rangoon when she was released in November 2010 after more than seven years under house arrest. Tears welled in her eyes as she first caught sight of her younger son, whom she had not seen for ten years. Her older son, Alexander Aris, who at the age of 18 delivered the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize address on behalf of his mother, lives in a Buddhist community in the US. It is unclear whether she has seen him since her release. Suu Kyi also has a brother-in-law, Anthony Aris, her late husband's twin, who lives in London and a sister-in-law, Lucinda Phillips, who lives with her husband in Warminster, Wilts. During the week-long visit, she will address both Houses of Parliament in London, a rare honour usually accorded only to heads of state, meet the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall as well as David Cameron. She will also meet Dave Lee Travis, better known as the "Hairy Cornflake," the veteran BBC radio DJ who counts the political campaigner as a fan. But it will be her return to Oxford, where she will finally accept the honorary doctorate which was awarded in 1993, that may prove the hardest. It was here that, as a student, she learned to punt and to ride a bicycle, swapping her traditional long Burmese skirt, the lungi, for white jeans. It was also where she met her husband. Student friend Ann Pasternak Slater recalled a striking figure whose "firm moral convictions and inherited social grace contrasted sharply with the tatty dress and careless manners, vague liberalism and uncertain sexual morality" of her English counterparts. Suu Kyi married Aris in 1972 on condition that if her country ever needed her, she would go. Rebecca Frayn, screenwriter of The Lady, a recent feature film documenting her life, said: "She thought she might go to Burma one day to set up a mobile library once the kids were grown and Michael was retired. They had a little dream that he would grow orchids. Neither could have predicted how different their lives would be. When her husband died on his 53rd birthday in 1999, she was unable to leave Burma for fear of not being allowed back into the country by the ruling authorities. Her steely resolve and the sacrifice of her role as a mother has been questioned over the years, but in interviews with the BBC on the eve of her return to Britain, she said she had no regrets over the choice she made. "No I've never regretted it because I think the decision that not just I but my colleagues made to continue with our struggle is beginning to pay off," she said. Although she had endured the pain of separation, her colleagues had made sacrifices too. The 17-day tour of five countries is only her second overseas visit since her release having only recently been granted a passport. She flies in from Dublin, where a concert is being held in her honour, and will leave for her final stop, Paris, next Monday, after she was personally invited by the new President François Hollande.