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Amazing story of Britain’s first two self-made female billionaires
Down to earth and unassuming, if you saw either of them in the supermarket you wouldn’t look twice...
It certainly wouldn’t cross your mind that Xiuli Hawken and Dame Mary Perkins were Britain’s first self-made female billionaires.
Property tycoon Xiuli, 48, is the highest self-made female entry in this year’s Sunday Times Rich List, thanks to her £1.06billion fortune.
And Specsavers boss Dame Mary, 67, with her £1.15billion riches, is the sixth richest woman in the UK.
It puts both modest mums alongside the nation’s super rich women, next to Harry Potter author JK Rowling (estimated to be worth £530million) and Jimmy Choo co-founder Tamara Mellon (£150million).
For the first time, there are more than 100 women among the nation’s wealthiest 1,000 people.
And Xiuli and Dame Mary have each earned their place in the rich ranks through hard work and entrepreneurship – unlike the 10 women in the Rich List who raked