DEMOCRACY campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi is due to arrive in Oxford today as she celebrates her 67th birthday.

As part of her tour of Europe, the Nobel Peace Prize winner will tomorrow receive an honorary doctorate in civil law at Oxford University’s Encaenia ceremony.

The chairman of the Burmese National League for Democracy will also be awarded the Freedom of the City of Oxford in a ceremony at St Hugh’s College, where she studied philosophy, politics and economics in the 1960s.

It is expected that the democracy leader’s family, including sons Alexander, 39, and Kim, 34, will stage a birthday party for her tonight.

On Thursday afternoon Ms Suu Kyi is expected to address MPs and members of the House of Lords in Westminster Hall.

Prime Minister and Witney MP David Cameron visited Burma in April for talks with Ms Suu Kyi.

She left Oxford in 1988 to care for her sick mother.

Her husband, Tibet scholar Michael Aris, who lived in Park Town, died of cancer at the age of 53 in 1999.

Ms Suu Kyi was in Burma when her son Kim picked up the Freedom of the City award on her behalf in 1997.

She was released from captivity in November 2010 and in April was elected to Parliament in Burma.

Ms Suu Kyi told the Andrew Marr Show she hoped her visit to the UK would not be “tinged with sadness”.

She added: “I want to see old friends again and rediscover old places where I have been happy.”