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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Mumbai

Ambani wedding: after months of celebrations, the ‘Windsors of India’ finally set to marry

A man holds a paint palette in one hand and touches a paintbrush to the finished portraits with the other
Artist Jagjot Singh Rubal paints portraits of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant. Photograph: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images

To many in India, it is hard to remember a time when the Ambani wedding wasn’t taking place.

The marriage of the son of India’s richest man, the billionaire Mukesh Ambani, to the daughter of a millionaire was never going to be a humble affair. The industrialist is worth an estimated $120bn and over the years the Ambani family has not shied away from flashing its cash extravagantly, whether on the world’s most expensive home – a 27-storey skyscraper mansion that towers over Mumbai – or on what was previously India’s most expensive wedding, spending almost $100m on their daughter’s nuptials in 2018 where Beyoncé performed.

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