It started with a teenage kiss …
Fiesta nights in the Placa of Fornalutx with live music and dancing, kids flirting with each other and hiding from their parents in the back lanes. Teenage holiday years in Mallorca, the kisses and always the politeness to the elderly.
Sue Lloyd Roberts MBE, journalist of the Year 2013, EMMY award winner. Intrepid reporter visiting the countries it was never considered safe for a woman to be. An early career with ITN and BBC and travels round the world as an investigative journalist. An inspiration to all women who had a burning desire to share the news as it happened and make a difference. She worked as a special correspondent, travelling to, and reporting on, major news stories across the world, including important issues not covered widely elsewhere. Sue Lloyd-Roberts produced reports from states such as North Korea, Myanmar and Syria, where she focused on a range of important issues such as human rights violations, environmental degradation and political corruption.
She was Human of Mallorca from childhood. In addition to her ultra busy life, opened and ran a hotel in Fornalutx, Guests could not believe this amazing woman was cooking their breakfast! Mallorca was her alternative to the horrors of the world her working life took her to. Walking with her beloved children in the mountains, chatting minutiae in the sun of Mallorca to local friends, was a very different world.
She had so much living to do, so many causes to fight for, so many hotel guests to please but she died of an aggressive form of Leukaemia on 13th October 2015.
Sue was a Human of Mallorca, who will never be forgotten on this island.
