Meet new Mrs Zuckerberg

Priscilla Chan has long been known as the girlfriend of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, but on Saturday she updated her status to the billionaire's wife. Given their nine-year relationship which started when she was a freshman and he a sophomore at Harvard, she has known the man behind the massive social networking site well before he became one of the richest people in the world.

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The surprise announcement of the couple's wedding this weekend has prompted a closer inspection of the woman who is now effectively one of the first ladies of Silicon Valley.

Accomplished in her own right, Ms Chan just recently graduated from the University of California-San Francisco where she was studying to pursue a career as a pediatrician. That milestone helped keep the secrecy of their 100-person wedding, as guests were told that it was her graduation party.

On the school's website, she is quoted as saying she chose to study there because she 'was attracted by the faculty's honesty and warmth and the curriculum's inter-disciplinary approach. San Francisco's quirkiness and diversity sealed the deal.'

Academics have always been important to the Massachusetts native, as she graduated from Quincy High School in 2003 as a part of the National Honors Society. From there, she went on to study biology at Harvard, which is where she crossed paths with Mr Zuckerberg.

In an interview with The New Yorker, Ms Chan said that the couple met while waiting in line for the bathroom at a party hosted by Mr Zuckerberg's fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi. 'He was this nerdy guy who was just a little bit out there,' she told the magazine. Dailynews

Their relationship continued even after Mr Zuckerberg decided to leave school to work on then-titled The Facebook. The campus newspaper The Crimson tells of a time that he made a recruiting trip back to campus and offered her a job 'at the facebook'. Dailynews