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Alexandra was born in Hong Kong on June 30, 1964, to Shanghai-native Richard Manley, an insurance company executive, and Christa Nowotny, the Austrian manager of a communications company. The eldest of three sisters, she comes from an exotic combination of Chinese, British, Polish and Austrian roots.
As a child she enjoyed a typical middle-class upbringing in the former British Colony, living in one of the many ex-pat enclaves which dot the outlying islands and attending school on the island of Hong Kong iteself.
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