Richard Branson Wife: Who Is Joan Templeman?

Joan Templeman is the second wife of Branson. Joan Templeman was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1948. Her father worked as a ship carpenter to support her and her six siblings.

She was quite independent at an early age and worked in several jobs including running an antique store. The pair got married in 1989 at Branson’s Necker Island, a 74-acre island on the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea.

In 2016 the couple celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary, and the Virgin boss penned a love letter to Joan as a tribute.

The letter included: “I experienced love at first sight upon meeting a blonde-haired, down-to-earth, Scottish beauty named Joan, who just happened to be making a cup of tea.

“I generally make up my mind about someone within 30 seconds of meeting them, and Joan won my heart instantly. She was unlike any other woman I had ever met.

“She was beautiful. She was bright. She was witty. She was down to earth. She was fun. And she had eyes made of magic.”

Branson and Templeman have a daughter named Holly who was born in 1981 and a son named Sam who was born in 1985.

During an interview with Piers Morgan Branson said the pair also had a daughter named Clare Sarah, who died when she was four days old in 1979.

Holly fulfilled her childhood dream of becoming a doctor and now holds a position at her father’s company. Sam is an actor and the co-founder of a production company called Sundog Pictures.

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is a British billionaire, entrepreneur, and business magnate. In the 1970s he founded the Virgin Group, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields.