How Assad's British wife went from top UK university to marrying Syrian tyrant

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Asma al-Assad was a seemingly bright, talented woman with a degree at one of the UK's finest university - but then she married an evil dictator . Things looked glowing for Mrs Assad when, aged 20, she left illustrious King's College London with a Bachelor's Degree in computer science and French literature. Yet just four years later, she married Bashar al-Assad , whose family had dictated Syria for more than 50 years - until this momentous month. And, since the toppling of her husband's