Priyanka Chaudhary Raina

Priyanka Chaudhary Raina was born on June 18, 1986 in Muradnagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh to Tejpal Singh and his wife Sushila. Her father is a sports coach in Ghaziabad. She has two brothers, Abhishek and Vivek, both of whom are engineers. She completed her B.Tech from Krishna Institute of Engineering and Technology. Her family later moved to Rajnagar, Ghaziabad and after completing her studies, she relocated to Netherlands to pursue her banking job.

She prides herself for her ability to balance charity work, family life and motherhood. She also finds time to go to the gym regularly to stay fit. While she thinks that being a woman entrepreneur is difficult as women have more responsibilities, she also feels that women are great at multi-tasking.

Priyanka Chaudhary Raina took the Indian news outlets by storm after news of her upcoming marriage to cricketer Suresh Raina was revealed in early 2015. Rumors of his marriage was doing the rounds of tabloids when Suresh Raina was out in Australia for the World Cup. After his return, it was reported that the 'roka' ceremony was held on March 12, 2015. This created a lot of interest on the bride and made the low-key girl an internet celebrity.

Growing up in the same neighborhood, Priyanka and Suresh Raina have known each other for a long time and have been childhood friends. Her father was Suresh’s sports teacher in Ghaziabad. Both their mothers were also very close to each other. However, the two lost touch after her family moved to Punjab and he began travelling constantly due to his cricket career. In 2008, after she shifted to Netherlands, they once met briefly for five minutes at the Delhi airport when Suresh was going to Bangalore for an IPL game. However, in 2015, while he was away playing cricket for India in the Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, his mother fixed his marriage to her old friend’s daughter, Priyanka.

His mother called him in Australia to give him the news that his marriage has been fixed with a childhood friend. After that the two began talking on the phone and developed a relationship. As such, they consider it an arranged marriage, even though they were in love by the time they got married a few weeks later on April 3, 2015. The pre-wedding celebrations started a couple days earlier during which their low-key engagement ceremony was held at his Ghaziabad residence. The following day, Priyank Sukhija, Raina's friend and famous restaurateur, hosted a bachelor party for him at his business venue, Lutyens Cocktail House, in New Delhi. The wedding event was hosted at The Leela Palace, Delhi.

After the birth of her daughter, Gracia Raina, Priyanka Chaudhary Raina left her job in Amsterdam and returned to India to take care of her child. Her experiences as a young mother made her sensitive towards the needs of numerous new mothers and children all over the country who are less privileged than her. This inspired her to become a social worker and she got the full support of both her and her husband's families.

In May 2017, on their daughter's first birthday, she and her husband announced the launch of the non-profit organization, Gracia Raina Foundation. The foundation is dedicated to ensure the well-being of underprivileged mothers and their children across the country and to provide them with opportunities for a sustainable livelihood.