Background
Born in London in 1950, she was the daughter of an orthopedic surgeon George Lloyd-Roberts and Catherine (née Ray).
Born in London in 1950, she was the daughter of an orthopedic surgeon George Lloyd-Roberts and Catherine (née Ray).
She attended Francis Holland School, Cheltenham Ladies College and read History and Modern Languages at Street Hilda"s (1970-1973), graduating from Oxford University with a second-class Bachelor Honours degree.
She failed the 11 Plus. While at university she worked on Isis, the student magazine. She joined Britain"s ITN, the news provider for Independent Television, straight from university and then reported extensively for the channel"s News at Ten.
Lloyd-Roberts joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1992.
She worked as a special correspondent, travelling to, and reporting on, major news stories across the world, including important issues not covered widely elsewhere. She presented many in-depth reports for the Newsnight programme and for Our World, the international current affairs series on British Broadcasting Corporation World News, its international satellite and cable news channel, as well as for the United Kingdom"s domestic British Broadcasting Corporation News channel.
Lloyd-Roberts produced reports from states such as North of Korea, Myanmar and Syria, where she focused on a range of important issues such as human rights violations, environmental degradation and political corruption. She announced on the Victoria Derbyshire programme she had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukaemia and urgently needed a donor with matching tissue type so she could have a stem cell transplant.
Lloyd-Roberts confirmed she would be keeping a video diary for the programme.(In August 2015, Derbyshire was diagnosed with a different form of cancer, and also announced that she would keep a public vlog) Lloyd-Roberts died on 13 October 2015 at University College Hospital in London, aged 64.