Britain¡¯s Richest Woman? You Bet. Her Fortune's Bigger Than JK Rowling's & The Queen¡¯s Combined

Kirsty Bertarelli is Britain's richest woman with a fortune that's bigger than that of JK Rowling and the Queen combined. Kristy, who is a former beauty queen from Staffordshire, secretly built a superyacht worth ?100 million.

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I bet you are all wondering who she is. For starters, she wrote a hit number for the band All Saints, was crowned Miss UK in 1988, and soon ended up as the 2nd runner up at the Miss World Pageant.

The fortune

Kristy's ?11.6bn fortune makes her the richest woman in all of Britain. The British-born is married to businessman Ernesto Bertarelli, who once used to own a biotech company named Serono.

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Kristy now lives in Switzerland with her husband and her three children. Together, the Bertarelli couple is ranked among the wealthiest people globally. Kristy's husband's fortune is well over ?9.75 billion.

Yeah, let's have that all-consuming, green envy burn us all.