Briton wins £40m Euro lottery prize

ONE lucky Briton was last night celebrating a very happy New Year after scooping nearly £40million as the sole winner of the EuroMillions lottery jackpot.

On Friday night, the unnamed ticket holder won £39,774,466.40 after matching the numbers 16, 28, 32, 44 and 48 with the lucky stars 01 and 09.

Their newly acquired wealth means they are worth roughly the same as Prince Harry, who was estimated to have a personal fortune of about £40million in 2017.

The EuroMillions winner could comfortably afford the world’s most expensive new car, the £14.4million Bugatti La Voiture Noire, and have enough cash left over to buy a couple of mansion flats i n London’s fashionable Knightsbridge that a buyer from Oman picked up for £25million in 2017. Camelot, which runs the lottery, said the winning ticket holder had come forward to claim the prize.

Although Friday’s winner is unlikely to be complaining, the sum is nowhere near the largest EuroMillions jackpot.

In October 2019, British player Peter Wilson won £170million, and in 2011, Colin and Chris Weir, of Largs, North Ayrshire, scooped £161 million. In 2012, Adrian and Gillian Bayford of Haverhill, Suffolk, bagged £148million.

Last month, a ticket bought in France won a EuroMillions jackpot of € 200 million, or about £177.5 million.