Tamara blasts ‘bitter’ critics ...from Daddy’s £28 m yacht

She has a £ 70 million mansion in London’s Kensington at her disposal and has posed nude for Playboy magazine. But the gilded life of heiress Tamara ecclestone can be open to misinterpretation.

Indeed, I can disclose that statuesque Tamara, 35, has felt it necessary to launch a withering attack on critics who have taken to social media to lambast her and her family for enjoying themselves aboard her father Bernie’s luxurious £28 million, 176 ft yacht, off the coast of Croatia.

‘ Clearly this virus hasn’t changed some people for the better, which is a bit of a shame,’ writes Tamara in a spirited rebuttal. ‘For those of you who are confused or just bitter,’ she adds, ‘I didn’t leave my house at all during lockdown. I didn’t even go to the park or exercise.’

Just in case her detractors had forgotten, Tamara reminds them that, while her father, former Formula One supremo Bernie ecclestone, is British, her mother, Slavica, his second wife, is not.

‘I am half- Croatian,’ she points out, ‘so decided it would be best, safest, to come here, which is not forbidden, and I am now following the rules in Croatia.’

The country had, as of yesterday, suffered only 106 coronavirus fatalities, while there are ‘ no bans, just precautions’ on its beaches.

Tamara was joined aboard the yacht by her husband, essex entrepreneur Jay Rutland, and their daughter Fifi, six, as well as Tamara’s younger sister, Petra, 31, and her four children — three of them by her ex- husband

James Stunt, and one by her fiance, Sam Palmer, who was also on board.

Stung by allegations that they have been neglecting the children’s education, Tamara, who speaks Croatian and Italian as well as english, adds: ‘ As for the home school questions, a return to school was optional. We chose to continue to home-school Fifi.’

The results, she claims, have been gratifying. ‘She is doing better than ever and has gone up two reading bands.

‘If I am not mistaken, no one is obliged to follow me, so you know what to do.’

Doubtless Fifi has mastered why her grandfather’s yacht is called Petara — an amalgam of her mother’s and her aunt’s names.