Friends have paid tribute to the late Leung Chai-yan, daughter of former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying, saying she will be remembered as a “kind, clever, animal-loving and caring woman” who loved her Chinese heritage deeply.

She was “much more than a public figure”, Leung’s former schoolmates from Wycombe Abbey, a private boarding school for girls in Buckinghamshire, England, said in a heartfelt letter sent to the Post.

She was “intelligent and studious, with the potential to pursue whatever career she wanted”, they wrote. Among those who paid tribute in the letter were Arch Hades, Ella Robertson McKay and Yvette Tetteh.