Eve Branson She was a founding member of ICMEC's Board of Directors in 1999, seeking to generate awareness of the Centre's work, and her son Richard was ICMEC's founding sponsor. She was married to Edward James Branson, a former cavalryman. He died on 19 March 2011 in his sleep at the age of 93. In 2011, Branson escaped the fire at her son's Caribbean island home on Necker Island, and Kate Winslet who was also at the house at the time picked her up and helped her down four steps. Eve Branson Evette Huntley Branson (née Flindt; born 12 July 1924) is
Richard Branson 2009, Shatner claimed that Branson approached him asking how much he would pay for a ride on the spaceship. In response, Shatner asked "how much would you pay "me" to do it?" In August 2007, Branson announced on "The Colbert Report" that he had named a new aircraft Air Colbert. He later doused political satirist and talk show host Stephen Colbert with water from his mug. Branson subsequently took a retaliatory splash from Colbert. The interview quickly ended, with both laughing as shown on the episode aired on Comedy Central on 22 August 2007. The interview was promoted on "The