Amid Covid-19 lockdown, Barack Obama got to know daughter Malia’s boyfriend, Rory Farquharson – but does he really have the former US president’s stamp of approval?
Before he met Malia at Harvard Law School, he was head boy at Rugby School and lived with his affluent family in Suffolk – his second cousin even worked for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles for over a decade
Top education
While Malia was attending school in Chicago and then went to the prestigious Sidwell Friends School – as most presidential children do – Farquharson was living at the expensive Rugby School in England. It wasn’t until he and Malia were attending Harvard Law School that they became romantically involved. He started studying at the Cambridge, Massachusetts school, part of Harvard University, in 2016 and the two were first spotted on a date at a sports game in 2017.
Obama revealed that the 22-year-old – who did an internship at Northern Ireland’s Centre For Democracy in Peace – had landed work stateside in 2020. The undisclosed job led to him staying in their Washington home amid a coronavirus lockdown.
Affluent living
Staying at the Obama household isn’t your average couchsurfing experience, but Farquharson is from an affluent family and so is no stranger to living it large. His father Charles was, until this month, the CEO of Insight Investment Management Limited, and his mother Catherine is an accountant. Their main home is a six-bedroom detached house in Suffolk and they have additional property in London.