Richard Branson parents: Meet Eve and Edward James

The 72-year-old businessman, Richard Branson was born on July 18, 1950, in Blackheath, London, United Kingdom by Eve and Edward James Branson. The entrepreneur and the businessman is the founder and owner of the Virgin Group, which today controls more than 400 companies including Virgin Airlines, Virgin Mobile, and Virgin Media.

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Richard Branson’s parents are Edward “Ted” and Eve Branson. Richard’s father worked as a barrister while his mother was a ballet dancer and a flight attendant for several years. The couple got married on 15 October 1949.

Branson’s mother, Eve Branson served in the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRENS) during World War II. She later became an airline hostess for British South American Airways.

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On March 19, 2011, Richard’s dad died in his sleep at the age of 93. In addition to Richard and Eve, Ted left behind his two daughters. Richard’s sisters Lindy and Vanessa Branson. In 2013, Eve Branson, the mother of Richard Branson published her autobiography, Mum’s the Word: The High-Flying Adventures of Eve Branson, and also established the Eve Branson Foundation and served as its director.

In 1999, she became a member of the board of directors of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (“ICMEC”), the goal of which is to help find missing children and to stop the exploitation of children. She later died from COVID-19 complications on 8 January 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom at the age of 96.

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