Stanley Ho’s four branches reunite at son Mario’s Macau wedding banquet
Late casino mogul Stanley Ho’s family united all four branches at son Mario Ho’s Macau wedding banquet, a rare public display of unity. Portraits showed four generations and senior heirs together, marking the most comprehensive reunion since Ho’s 2020 death.
The family of late Macau casino patriarch Stanley Ho Chiu-ying gathered in an unprecedented public display of unity at a celebratory banquet for his son Mario Ho Yau-kwan and supermodel wife Ming Xi Mengyao, held at the Grand Lisboa Palace Resort Macau.
The rare occasion drew widespread online attention after Ho’s younger sister, Alice Ho Chiu-yan, posted commemorative photographs on social media. The images showed landmark portraits of four generations under one roof, as well as a historic gathering of senior family members from the first, second, third, and fourth households—described by observers as the most comprehensive family reunion since the patriarch died in 2020.
The primary portrait of the fourth branch featured a rich display of traditional festivity, framed against a prominent oil painting of the late tycoon that symbolically completed a four-generation family scene. Seated in the front row were fourth wife Angela Leong On-kei and her 80-year-old mother, both dressed in embroidered Chinese bridal gowns known as kua. Leong’s mother wore high-grade jade necklaces and rings, surrounded by Ho and Xi’s two young children in matching festive red attire.
Standing behind them were the newlyweds. Xi wore a heavily embroidered royal dragon-and-phoenix gown adorned with ten pairs of stacked gold bracelets, while Ho donned a tailored red embroidered Chinese suit. Alice Ho and Angela Leong’s brother and sister-in-law, both of whom seldom appear in public, stood alongside the couple, underscoring the family’s emphasis on the banquet.
A second portrait drew extensive public interest as former Macau Chief Executive Edmund Ho Hau-wah stood at the centre as principal guest of honour, flanked by Mario Ho in a formal black suit, Xi in a white gown, and Angela Leong. Surrounding them was an extraordinary gathering of representatives from all four family branches, whose members typically manage their vast business holdings separately and rarely convene in public.
The first branch was represented by the late tycoon’s daughter Deborah Ho Chiu-hung, wearing her signature dark red Chinese-style suit, alongside her tall nephew Peter Kjaer. The second branch included family matriarch Pansy Ho Chiu-king in an elegant Western dress, with her sister Daisy Ho Chiu-fung and Daisy’s daughter Gillian Ho. The third branch was represented by Florinda Ho Chiu-wan in a refined burgundy evening gown, while fourth-branch siblings Sabrina Ho Chiu-ying and Alice Ho completed the assembly, joined by the family’s young third-generation grandchildren.
While members of the Ho family oversee different sectors of the multibillion-dollar gaming, hospitality, and investment empire, public events uniting all branches remain extraordinarily uncommon. The banquet not only drew high-profile civic figures but also provided a rare venue for senior heirs across all four households to celebrate family ties in person. Observers and social media commentators noted that the portraits captured one of the warmest and most cohesive moments seen across the entire dynasty in recent years.