UK’s most eligible bachelor, richest Apprentice star & ex-footballer top youngest millionaires on Sunday Times Rich List
THE Rich List of Britain’s wealthiest people is out today.
Each year Sunday Times Rich List compiler Robert Watts charts the ups and downs of the Brits with the biggest bank accounts.
Sunday Times subscribers can see the full list today or in the weekend’s newspaper.
But The Sun has been given a sneak preview of the 40 richest men and women aged under 40.
The list includes showbiz and sports stars, musicians, self-made tycoons and those who inherited a family fortune.
Top of the Young Rich List list is worth over £10billion and number 40 has amassed £56million. See who is worth what:
1. Duke of Westminster £10.127billion
Britain’s most eligible bachelor, Hugh Grosvenor, 33, will marry Olivia Henson, 31, on June 7.
The duke inherited his title, and a property empire in 12 countries, at the age of 25, including 300 acres of Mayfair and Belgravia.
His new bride is setting up a honey business on the Eaton estate, the Grosvenor’s 11,000-acre estate in Cheshire.
His friend Prince William will be a guest of honour at next month’s wedding.
2. Lady Charlotte Wellesley £2.2billion
A daughter of the Duke of Wellington, Oxford-educated Lady Charlotte, 33, owes her real fortune to her marriage to the American-Columbian brewing heir and investor Alejandro Santo Domingo.
3. Herman Narula £780million
Dubbed “the toff in tech”, Narula set up Improbable Worlds after studying at Cambridge.
The London-based firm is developing a platform enabling 40,000 people to play in the same virtual space at once.
In late 2022 valued his company was valued at £2.7billion and Delhi-born Narula owns at least 28.9 per cent of the shares.
His book Virtual Society is billed as a “definitive guide to the metaverse”.
4. Fawn and India Rose James £750million
The James sisters inherited the £1billion property empire built up by their grandfather, Paul Raymond.
The strip club tycoon bought up swathes of Soho, including Ronnie Scott’s jazz club and the landmark billboards in Leicester Square.
Fawn, 38, runs the estate. India Rose, 32, has a daughter with Kooks guitarist Hugh Harris.
The sisters also have property in Surrey and Dubai.
5. Ben Francis £725million
Gymshark, the Solihull-based “athleisure” retailer set up by Francis, 31, is looking less pumped these days.
Profits have halved. He has been renovating a Cotswolds dairy farm.
6. Thomas Hartland-Mackie £684million
Swiss-born Hartland-Mackie, 36, runs his family’s electrical products business, City Electric Supply.
It has at least 1,000 stores and turned over more than £1 billion last year.
7. Oliver and Alexander Kent-Braham £455million
Initially running their business from the gym, the 32-year-old British twins created the giant insurer Marshmallow, which uses AI to assess safe drivers and lower their premiums.
8. Ayman Rahman and Fateha Begum £404million
After throwing himself into global energy markets, Rahman, 33, teamed up with his 36-year-old wife, Begum, to launch Dare International.
Their firm employs 200 staff and handles trades worth billions of pounds a day.
9. Sir Lewis Hamilton £350million
Formula One ace Hamilton has been earning more than £40 million a year from Maclaren, plus almost £10 million from tie-ups with Bose, Electronic Arts, Monster Energy, Tommy Hilfiger and Puma.
Leaks suggest his new contract with Ferrari could be worth as much as £358 million.
Born in Stevenage, Hamilton, 39, has spent 17 years living in either Switzerland or Monaco and thus avoiding UK tax on his overseas earnings.
10. Ed Sheeran £340million
Sheeran paid himself £62 million for the first half of his Mathematics world tour.
Not a bad sum for a former busker who wrote the lyric “I think that money is the root of all evil and fame is hell”.
11. Tom and Phil Beahon £334million
The Beahon brothers have shaken up the sportswear world with their label, Castore.
Tom, 34, played for Tranmere Rovers while cricketer Phil, 31, represented Lancashire.
12. Timothy Goodwin £245million
Goodwin, 34, chairs the family engineering business that makes parts for the defence and mining sectors.
As well as a £400,000 salary he also received a cut of £8.3 million dividends over the past year.
13. Rory McIlroy £225million
McIlroy, 35, picked up £1.29 million for winning last summer’s Scottish Open, and the Belfast-born golfer’s earnings on the fairways are thought to exceed £65 million.
The bulk of McIlroy’s fortune stems from sponsorship deals with Nike, Omega, TaylorMade and others.
He has prospered from property in Dubai, New York and Florida but his recent divorce could hit his fortune.
14. Martin Kissinger £200million
The German-born LSE graduate, 34, moved to London in his teens and soon set up Lendable.
The business uses AI to identify low-risk people who can be charged less interest on loans.
15. Alex Loven £200million
Lovén, 36, saved up £13,000 from shifts at a builder’s merchants during his teens to buy a shipment of goal nets.
His Wrexham firm Net World Sports now sells more than 100,000 football goals a year.
16. James Asquith £182million
Asquith was 24 when he held the Guinness world record for the youngest male to visit all 196 sovereign countries on the planet.
These days the 35-year-old runs the Airbnb rival Holiday Swap.
17. Anthony Joshua £175million
The former world heavyweight champion is punching his way into the property world, buying buildings in Mayfair, Bond Street and BP’s former HQ in Hertfordshire.
Watford-born Joshua, 34, is still doing business in the ring.
Knocking out Francis Ngannou in March set up the prospect of an encounter with Oleksandr Usyk or Tyson Fury.
Sparta Promotions, which holds £129.2 million of Joshua’s wealth, shows he earned £28.3 million with his gloves last year and £8.9 million from commercial deals.
17. Harry Styles £175million
Superstar Styles was pictured on his 30th birthday returning from an icy swim in one of Hampstead Heath’s ponds.
If this seems less than rock’n’roll behaviour, the former One Direction singer has had a quieter time since 2022, when he topped album charts, starred in two films and played to packed stadiums around the world.
Redditch-born Styles is working on a fourth studio record.
Wealth in his three largest companies has grown by almost £50million since last year’s Rich List.
19. Adele £170million
Ill health may have forced the singer to postpone her shows but it hasn’t dented her finances.
The 36-year-old Londoner lives in Beverly Hills, and rumour has it that she is planning to study for a degree in English literature.
20. Dan and Melanie Marsden £151million
The power couple, 32 and 31, met at primary school and later founded online retailer Lounge Underwear.
Last year they opened their first bricks and mortar store in London.
21. Eric Liu £150million
Chinese-born Liu, 28, set up HungryPanda, a food delivery service similar to Deliveroo specialising in Asian fare.
The London-based business is now up and running in more than 80 cities across ten countries, including Australia, France, Japan and the US.
Liu, who read computer science at Nottingham University, has raised more than $200 million from investors.
He owns at least 25 per cent of the £600 million business.
21. Lewis Morgan £150million
Morgan, 31, co-founded Gymshark with school friend Ben Francis (No 5) before selling his stake and investing in property.
He is chairman of Aybl, a rival sportswear brand started by another mate.
23. Barney Hussey-Yeo £128million
Millions have signed up for Cleo, the app that helps users track spending and stick to budgets.
The 34-year-old owns almost a third of the London business.
24. Alex and David Campbell £127million
SureScreen Diagnostics won a £500 million NHS contract to supply lateral-flow tests during the pandemic.
David, 34, and Alex, 39, run the Derby-based manufacturer with a third brother, Alastair.
25. Vishal Karia £116million
Sales at Karia’s perfume and cosmetics distributor, Affinity, have topped £100 million in seven years.
Expelled from school and diagnosed with ADHD, Karia, top, 34, owns most of the Buckinghamshire based £120 million wholesaler.
25. Alex Kendall £116million
After his PhD at Cambridge, New Zealand-born Kendall, 31, founded Wayve, a start-up to develop AI-based software for driverless cars.
The company aims to be the first to deploy autonomous vehicles in 100 cities.
27. Sir Andy Murray £100million
Nearing the end of an illustrious career, Murray, 37, has won more than £50 million on the court and there have been commercial deals with Head, Standard Life, American Express and Halo.
He spotted the potential for Castore, the sportswear brand set up by the Beahon brothers (No 11) and his stake is worth £35 million.
He also owns the upmarket Cromlix hotel in Stirlingshire, where a night in one of the turret suites will set you back £750.
28. Christian Owens £91million
Owens, 29, taught himself to code aged 13.
Five years later he co-founded Paddle, a tech firm helping small businesses make and receive payments.
He has a stake worth at least £91 million.
29. Dua Lipa £90million
Last summer’s Barbie blockbuster gave the Anglo-Albanian star her acting debut — and a No 1 single with Dance the Night.
She landed a bigger role in Argylle, the latest Matthew Vaughn caper, and a No 2 in the UK singles charts with Houdini.
The 28-year-old picked up her seventh Brit award in March and released a third studio album earlier this month.
Wealth in her two largest companies has grown by £15 million.
29. Daniel Radcliffe £90million
Since his Hogwarts days Radcliffe, 34, has gilded his wealth with movie roles and by investing in London and New York property.
Yet his stock market portfolio has lost some of its magic.
31. Victor Riparbelli £85million
Riparbelli, 32, co-founded the Shoreditch based Synthesia, specialising in AI-generated video.
It created a David Beckham film delivering an anti-malaria message in nine languages.
31. Steffen Tjerrild £85million
Tjerrild, 33, set up AI-powered video creator Synthesia with fellow Dane Victor Riparbelli in 2017.
Analysis of the 40 Under 40 list
The minimum figure for the 40 Under 40 list is £56 million.
Last year sportswear makers including Ben Francis of Gymshark, and Dan and Melanie Marsden — founders of Lounge Underwear, whose lingerie business has been powered by Instagram and thrived during the pandemic — dominated the Young Rich List. But technology firms are catching up fast.
- The majority made millions on their own, but nine were born into money.
- 36 of the 40 entries have a combined total of £7.4 billion. The other five, who owe at least some of their wealth to inheritance, account for £13.3 billion.
- The top nine also feature in the main Rich List, where the minimum entry is £350 million.
It allows users to turn text into audio spoken in more than 130 languages with the help of 160 avatars.
Synthesia is valued at £800 million.
33. Reece Wabara £83million
Former Manchester City player Wabara quit football at 26 to focus on Manière De Voir, the fashion label he created.
Last year Wabara, 32, opened his first store on Oxford Street in London after ten years of selling online.
34. Mike and George Heaton £81million
The Bolton-born brothers started the streetwear label Represent with just £150.
George, 31, was studying graphic design at college when he had the idea of selling T-shirts displaying his coursework.
He and brother Mike, 33, chose their brand’s name by writing down 15 “random” words.
They picked “representing” and a friend later suggested ditching the “ing”.
Collaborations with Kanye West, Justin Bieber, Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid helped drive sales and profits of £9million.
35. Harry Kane £75million
The England captain moved from Tottenham to Bayern Munich last summer for a reported signing fee of more than £30 million.
Kane, 30, earns £400,000 a week and has poured his earnings into a range of businesses.
36. Susie Ma £73million
Ma, 35, started out making face scrubs and in 2011 persuaded Lord Sugar to buy half her Tropic Skincare business on The Apprentice.
She bought him out last year.
37. Raheem Sterling £72million
The Jamaica-born striker, 29, earns about £350,000 a week at Chelsea and last year fronted Nike’s anti-racism ad campaign.
He has lucrative tie-ups with New Balance, Puma, Gillette and Clarks.
38. Gareth Bale £70million
Since retiring from football Bale, 34, has competed in celebrity golf tournaments alongside Novak Djokovic and Rory McIlroy.
The Cardiff-born winger also has his own sports bar, Elevens.
39. Emma Watson £59million
Watson, 34, earned about £50 million playing Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and £15 million from the remake of Beauty and the Beast.
She has launched Renais Spirits, a gin distillery in Dorset.
40. Charlie Morgan £56million
Morgan, 28, is one half of the double act behind blingy Welsh drinks brand Au Vodka.
Sales jumped by more than 20 per cent last year. Popular flavours include Gold Caramel and Pink Lemonade.
The Rich List is published in this weekend’s Sunday Times.