He makes history: Rishi Sunak (42) is the first person of color and the first practicing Hindu to hold the office of British Prime Minister. Also, at 42, Sunak is younger than all of his predecessors - except for William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806), who was 24 at the time. And the new prime minister is said to be even richer than King Charles III. (73). What is known about this unusual successor to Liz Truss (47)?

Sunak was born on May 12, 1980 in the southern English port city of Southampton to Indian parents who had moved to Britain from East Africa. According to The Guardian, his father was a GP and his mother ran her own pharmacy. The eldest of three children, Sunak attended the private boarding school Winchester College, which costs £43,335 a year. Rishi Sunak has served as head boy and has donated over £100,000 to the school on several occasions over the past few years.

Sunak then studied politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford University. After graduating with excellence, he earned a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Stanford University. At this university he also met his future wife, Akshata Murthy (42).

She is the daughter of Indian billionaire N.R. Narayana Murthy, often referred to as the Bill Gates (66) of India, who founded a software company. His daughter reportedly owns shares in the company worth around £700m.

Former fashion designer Murthy and her brother Rohan were largely raised by their paternal grandparents as their parents pursued their careers, according to Mail Online. After graduating from high school, Murthy moved to the United States, where she earned degrees in business and French from Claremont McKenna College in California and studied at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. She then switched to studying for an MBA at the renowned Stanford University.

Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murthy married in 2009, four years after they first met, in their Indian hometown of Bengaluru. 1,000 guests were invited to the two-day ceremony. They lived in India for four years and moved to the UK in 2013. Their £7million townhouse in Kensington is just one of several properties they own. The two daughters, Krishna and Anoushka, made the family happiness complete.

In an interview with The Times in August, Sunak gave a little insight into his marriage. He and Murthy are like brimstone. The biggest difference is in the housework. "I'm incredibly neat, she's very messy," he said. "I'm a lot more organized, she's more spontaneous. She's not going to love me for saying that, but I'll be honest, she's not that into tidying up...clothes...and shoes everywhere...oh God, shoes," said the politician.

While still a student, Rishi Sunak told documentary filmmakers that he had friends who were aristocrats, friends who were upper class, and friends who were working class, according to Guradian, before he changed his mind and corrected, "Well, not working class ".

Also noteworthy is his great passion for an American soft drink. Sunak "collects Coca-Cola things," as he told two students, before admitting, "I'm addicted to Coca-Cola, I'm totally addicted to Coca-Cola," then, as the students giggled, clarified, " Coca-Cola addict, just for the record".

In April this year, it emerged that Murthy is not resident in the UK, meaning she does not have to pay tax on her international earnings in exchange for paying an annual fee of £30,000 (about €34,450). Without that status, she would have had to pay more than £20m (€23m) in UK tax on that income, it has been reported. After a public outcry, her spokesman announced that she would pay tax in the UK on her overseas earnings to ease the political pressure on her husband.

Nonetheless, Sunak and Murthy's combined fortune is estimated at £730m (about €838m) - double the estimated fortune of King Charles III. and King Consort Camilla (75) from £300m to £350m (about €344m to €402m).

Rishi Sunak rose from MP to prime minister in just seven years - faster than any other prime minister in modern times. David Cameron (56) did it in nine years - but again the aforementioned Pitt the Younger holds the overall record at just two years old.

Sunak's journey to the top hasn't always been smooth. After losing to Liz Truss in a Tory Members' vote on September 5, it was expected that he would retire from politics - and he did, giving the last the day after Truss became Prime Minister spoke in the House of Commons.

But when Truss stumbled, with the support of his followers gathered during the summer campaign, Sunak was ready to take over...