Virgin Group CEO Richard Branson shares the family values that have shaped his life.
I grew up in Shamley Green, a very small village in Surrey, south-east England. My mother, Eve, worked as an air hostess before she met my father. My dad, Ted, very much wanted to be an archaeologist but it was the family tradition to go into law. My parents met at a dance and were married in October 1949.
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