Lady Joan Branson’s life could have been saved if doctors had prescribed her medication for a ‘massive’ blood clot on one of her lungs, an inquest heard.
Sir Richard Branson‘s wife passed away aged 80 on November 24, 2025, at hospital following complications caused by a back injury she suffered weeks earlier.
Westminster Coroner’s Court heard on Wednesday she died after suffering a pulmonary embolism, a sudden, dangerous blockage in a lung artery, resulting from deep vein thrombosis.
Joan was admitted to The Lister Hospital in Chelsea on November 17 after a fall at the family’s luxury Necker Island retreat, owned by her
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