OUT OF THE SHADOWS

Through remarkable strength of will, she has turned trauma into triumph. Queenie Rosita Law tells Chloe Street how her innate creativity helped put the ordeal of her 2015 kidnapping behind her and opened up a future focused on art, passion and positivity

Photography RICHARD RAMOS Styling JUSTINE LEE

“I had no idea my mind was so strong until it happened,” says Queenie Rosita Law of the four-day ordeal she endured at the hands of kidnappers in April 2015. Taken by a gang of six mainlanders when they ransacked her family’s Sai Kung home, she was held captive in a tent in a forest-shrouded cave on Kowloon Peak. Though she had feared for her life, as she told the Shenzhen trial of one of her kidnappers, Queenie is able to talk about her ordeal in a calm and philosophical manner, proud of the mental fortitude she discovered. “It was almost like going to a meditation camp,” she says. “It cut me off from life—my phone, the internet—so I really had to rely on my thoughts. It made me realise…

You're reading a preview of

Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2017

DiscountMags is a licensed distributor (not a publisher) of the above content and Publication through Zinio LLC. Accordingly, we have no editorial control over the Publications. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including those made in Publications offered on our website, are those of the respective author(s) or publisher(s) and not of DiscountMags. DiscountMags does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, truthfulness, or usefulness of all or any portion of any publication or any services or offers made by third parties, nor will we be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on information contained in any Publication, or your use of services offered, or your acceptance of any offers made through the Service or the Publications. For content removal requests, please contact Zinio.