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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Michael Odell

Richard Branson: 'Why I won't leave my billions to my children'

Richard Branson, photographed at his new Virgin Hotel in Shoreditch London - (Mark Harrison)

So what does a billionaire business tycoon eat for breakfast? I’m sitting with Sir Richard Branson in his spanking new, 120-room Virgin Hotels London-Shoreditch, where I imagine they served him something delicious this morning. I am wrong.

“I went to E Pellicci in Bethnal Green, it’s a proper old East End restaurant,” he beams. “The welcome you get and the size of the breakfast is incredible. You should go there — 84-year-old Maria Pellicci still runs the kitchen — but you’ll need to go to one of our Virgin Active gyms afterwards.”

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