True love ‘knows no boundary’ and this is what the love story of India’s youngest prime minister tells about. Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi’s love story is no less than a fairy tale. Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi met at a Greek Restaurant in London for the first time. It was love at first sight for Rajiv Gandhi when he saw the Italian beauty Sonia Gandhi. Rajiv Gandhi went to London with his friends while Sonia was studying at the Lennox Cook School of Languages, the most expensive and reputed school in Cambridge. The love story that started back in 1965 ended at a devastating note following the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.
Sonia Gandhi,or Edvige Antonia Albina Maino, born in Lusiana, Italy met Rajiv Gandhi, son of fierce former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1965.
It was a love at first sight for Rajiv Gandhi when he first saw Sonia Gandhi. Rajiv Gandhi wrote a poem on a napkin for Sonia Gandhi and asked Charles Antoni, owner of the restaurant to pass the same with the best wine, to Sonia Gandhi.
Their friendship turned into love and both the love birds wrote to their parents, confessing their love for each other.
Amitabh Bachchan and Rajiv were close friends and the Bachchan family played a crucial role in the marriage of Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi.
In an interview to Simmy Grewal, Rajiv Gandhi himself admitted that it was love at first sight, when he first saw Sonia Gandhi.
Sonia in her book ‘Rajiv,’ published in 1992, wrote “Our eyes met for the first time directly at a close distance. I could hear my heart pounding. As far as I was concerned, it was love at first sight. He later told me that it was for him too.”
Rajiv, who initially did not want to be a politician was a pilot with Indian Airlines. But destiny had its plan and he became the youngest PM of India following the untimely death of his mother and the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi.
However, Rajiv-Sonia’s marriage lasted for 23 years only. Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in 1991 in a suicide bomb attack in Perumbudur in Tamil Nadu. After his death, Sonia Gandhi led the party courageously and is still leading India’s oldest party.
