Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is a British billionaire, entrepreneur, and business magnate who founded The Virgin Group in the 1970s, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields.
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He was born in Blackheath, London, to parents Eve Branson and Edward James Branson.
Meet his parents;
- Eve Branson
Rchard’s mom was a former ballet dancer and air hostess.
She was born Evette Huntley Flindt in 1924 and died in 2021.
She was passionate about writing and in addition to her memoir, Mum’s The Word, (based on her personal diaries), she wrote articles, essays, novels, plays, scripts, and children’s stories.
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She also published travel articles and historical accounts and a children’s book dedicated to her 11 grandchildren, entitled Sarky Puddleboat (AuthorHouse 2010).
She founded the Eve Branson Foundation in 2005, an organisation that provides income-producing projects for girls in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
In 2008, at 84-years-old, she became the first mother in history to have a spaceship named after her – Virgin Galactic’s mothership, VMS Eve.
Sadly, she passed away from COVID-19 in January 2021.
- Edward James Branson
Richard’s dad was a barrister.
He was born in 1918 and died in 2011.
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