Joan Templeman

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By the way, so Joan Templeman was her name.

Love that name.

Uh, she died in November 2025, which meant it was probably like two to three months prior to filming this, and Richard Branson met her in 1976 or something, which meant that they were together for like basically 50 years.

First up, this is a story that's leading nearly every health conversation in the country right now.

This is the coroner in London has ruled that the death of Lady Joan Templeman, Sir Richard Branson's wife of 36 years, was likely preventable.

Templeman suffered a fall.

She was hospitalized and died two weeks later from a pulmonary embolism, and that is a blood clot that traveled to her lungs.

And everything that we talk about on this program lives at healthtalkamerica.com.

So let's go ahead back to that first headline in the last segment.

A London coroner has ruled that Lady Joan Templeman, married to Sir Richard Branson for 36 years, likely would have survived her pulmonary embolism if she had simply received the anticoagulant medication that her medical history called for.

So let's go ahead and walk through exactly what happened because the timeline matters.

[news music] First up, this is a story that's leading nearly every health conversation in the country right now.

And this is the coroner in London has ruled that the death of Lady Joan Templeman, Sir Richard Branson's wife of 36 years, was likely preventable.

Templeman suffered a fall.

She was hospitalized and died two weeks later from a pulmonary embolism, and that is a, a blood clot that traveled to her lungs.

And everything that we talk about on this program lives at healthtalkamerica.com.

So let's go ahead back to that first headline in the last segment.

A London coroner has ruled that Lady Joan Templeman, married to Sir Richard Branson for 36 years, likely would have survived her pulmonary embolism if she had simply received the anticoagulant medication that her medical history called for.

So let's go ahead and walk through exactly what happened because the timeline matters.