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==Personal life== He was the sixth of the seven children in the Shaw family, and was nicknamed Uncle Six (''Luk Sook''). His three elder brothers, [[Runje Shaw]], [[Runde Shaw]] and [[Runme Shaw]], were all heads of the Shaw Studio. Runme Shaw, the third elder brother, who co-founded the Shaw Studio with him, died in 1985. Shaw's first wife was Lily Wong Mee-chun, who died at age 85 in 1987. In 1997, he married [[Mona Fong]] in [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]]. A former singer, Mona Fong joined TVB as a procurement manager in 1969 and became the deputy chairman of TVB in 2000.<ref name="who"/><ref name="Bloomberg"/> Shaw had four children with his first wife: sons Vee Meng and Harold, and daughters Violet and Dorothy.<ref name="Bloomberg"/> All of his children studied at Oxford University.<ref name="NYT"/> Shaw was a lover of [[List of Rolls-Royce motor cars|Rolls-Royce]] limousines<ref name="WSJ"/> and a keen practitioner of [[qigong]].<ref name="South China"/> ''[[Mr. Bean]]'' was reportedly his favourite show.<ref name="Shawman">{{cite news |last=Wong |first=Karen |date=6 October 2007 |title=The Great Shawman Turns 100 |url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=48&art_id=54590&sid=15701123&con_type=3&d_str=20071006&sear_year=2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107091713/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=48&art_id=54590&sid=15701123&con_type=3&d_str=20071006&sear_year=2007 |archive-date=7 January 2014 |access-date=2025-03-16 |newspaper=[[The Standard (Hong Kong)|The Standard]]}}</ref>
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