A FORMER beauty queen from Staffordshire who is now Britain’s richest woman has been snapped on the secret £100 million superyacht she received for her birthday.
The vast 314ft-long Vava II was commissioned for Miss UK 1988 Kirsty Bertarelli, 45 by her billionaire husband Ernesto, 51.
The Swiss pharmaceutical baron had the boat built in secret by Plymouth boat-maker Devonport Yachts under the codename Project 55.
It boasts six decks, four boats to take passengers to shore, a fold-down beach club, a pool with variable depth and a helipad.
Staggeringly, it reportedly costs £250,000 just to fill the fuel tanks.
The wealthy couple were spotted on the deck of the opulent boat in Boston Harbour in the US.
Kirsty is worth more than the Queen, pop superstar Adele and Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling combined, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.
The singer was the horsey, tennis-loving English rose who became worth a very, very pretty penny after marrying Swiss bio-tech tycoon Ernesto — and has now swapped jodhpurs for a private jet and a superyacht.
The pair have a tidy £11.5BILLION — making them Britain’s sixth most loaded couple and Kirsty top lass.
Ernesto bought her the yacht for her 40th birthday.
She and Ernesto — they met at a dinner party in Sardinia — flit between an £8million estate in Swiss ski resort Gstaad, a £10million Geneva pad and a £10million pile in London’s Belgravia.
Instagram holiday snaps from Dubai, Mustique and the Solomon Islands add to the glamour. She has a private jet at her disposal, as well as a fleet of limos, while her wardrobe is bursting with Dior, Chanel and Armani.
Kirsty is a musician and began writing songs in the mid-1990s after moving to London.
She has released six albums and a Christmas EP, but her biggest hit to date was for someone else.
Girl group All Saints’ fifth and final No1 single in the UK, 2000 release Black Coffee, was reworked from a song Kirsty wrote — I Wouldn’t Want To Be, about her fledgling relationship with Ernesto.
She says: “Hearing my song on the radio brought mixed emotions. I have to be thankful to All Saints — they could make it No1 — but I knew the emotions behind the song.
“I wanted to sing it because there had been real meaning behind it, which was my love for Ernesto.”
Her debut album, Elusive, entered the Swiss charts at No20 and in 2010 her song Green was chosen as the anthem of the Worldwide