Michelle Obama will return on Monday to the London girls’ school that inspired her focus on education when she was US first lady, as part of a one-day UK tour to publicise her memoir.
In 2009 Obama visited Elizabeth Garrett Anderson school (EGA) in Islington, which at the time had 900 refugee pupils in a student body where 55 languages were spoken. In her memoir, Becoming, she recalls: “Looking at the girls, I just began to talk, explaining that though I had come from far away … I was more like them than they knew.”
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