Ed Broadbent where known to have married three wives Ellen Meiksins Wood, Lucille Broadbent, and Yvonne Yamaoka. In 1961, he married Yvonne Yamaoka, a Japanese-Canadian town planner whose family had been interned by the federal government in World War II. They divorced in 1967.
Broadbent married a young Franco-Ontarian widow, Lucille Munroe in 1971. Munroe died of cancer on November 17, 2006, at the age of 71.
Ed Broadbent married the Marxist historian and political theorist Ellen Meiksins Wood, an old friend, in 2014. She died in 2016, at the age of 73.
Ed Broadbent has been married thrice: Facts about his wives Ellen Meiksins Wood, Lucille Broadbent, and Yvonne Yamaoka
Ellen Meiksins Wood was an American-Canadian Marxist political theorist and historian. She was born on April 12, 1942, in New York, New York, United States. Her parents were Latvian Jews active in the Bund and arrived in New York from Europe as political refugees one after her birth. She was raised in the United States and Europe.
Ellen Meiksins was married to Ed Broadbent for two years from 2014 to 2016. She lived in Ottawa and London for six years until her death from cancer at the age of 73. She died on January 14, 2016, in Ottawa, Canada.
Lucille Broadbent married Ed Broadbent for 25 years from 1971 to 2006. She died after a decade-long battle with breast cancer. Ed Broadbent became a stepfather to her son, Paul. They adopted a baby girl, Christine, soon after. She passed away at her Ottawa home early Saturday at the age of 71 on November 17, 2006.
Yvonne Yamaoka and her husband Ed Broadbent were married for six years from 1961 to 1967. It was unknown whether they had children or did any adoption.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
