Huong Keenleyside was born in 1971 in Hanoi

Hanoi

Hanoi , is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city. Its population in 2009 was estimated at 2.6 million for urban districts, 6.5 million for the metropolitan jurisdiction. From 1010 until 1802, it was the most important political centre of Vietnam...

, Vietnam as Huong Nguyen, but became Huong Keenleyside when she married the son of a landowner of Northallerton

Northallerton

Northallerton is an affluent market town and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Vale of Mowbray and at the northern end of the Vale of York. It has a population of 15,741 according to the 2001 census...

, Wilkinson Keenleyside . However, at the start, Huong Keenleyside followed her father to open her first tailor shop at the young age of just 17. When she was 23, her first book "The secrets of soul," was a best seller, followed by the true spy story "For the love of Vietnam," published by Janus Publishing company in London, then the Asia bestseller " Cau vong o Iraq"
In 2003 Huong Keenleyside and Philip A. Chapman opened the Keenleyside Fashion company in York. She is supporting the orphan charity in Vietnam as a chairman of the Vietnamese Union of Northern England and Scotland. She is contented with her married life, and lives with her family in England, while writing and designing fashion wear for the Keenleyside Fashion business in York, London, Hanoi, and Saigon.