Lau's wife was born and raised on Tahiti. She boarded a ship bound for Shanghai in May 1949 to go study there, but when the city fell to the Communists in June, the ship simply sailed on to Hong Kong.
劉權的太太在大溪地土生土長，民國卅八年五月搭上船準備回上海念書，結果六月上海陷共，船乾脆直駛香港。