REVEALED: What 30 National Lottery winners who claimed nearly £200 million between them since 1994 are doing now - after spending millions on mansions, luxury holidays and By RYAN HOOPER FOR THE DAILY MAIL Published: 00:00 GMT, 14 November 2024 | Updated: 00:12 GMT, 14 November 2024 e-mail View comments Rankin has photographed the most famous people in the country - and now he has lined up some of the luckiest. This ensemble of 30 National Lottery winners has claimed nearly £200 million between them since the game was launched in the UK in 1994. They include those who have spent their millions on mansions, luxury holidays and breast surgery for their sisters, while others have lived a more frugal lifestyle.
Some continue to work, despite their windfalls. The lottery has created more than 7,400 millionaires across its main draw, EuroMillions, scratchcards and other games in the last 30 years. Pictured: The 30 National Lottery winners who have claimed nearly £200 million between them since 1994 This included retired account manager Lesley Higgins, from Aberdeenshire, who won nearly £58 million with her husband Fred on the EuroMillions in 2018 - despite a shop worker accidentally tearing the ticket in half, believing the ticket had not won.
Mrs Higgins said the money indirectly saved her husband’s life. ‘(The win) meant we could afford a custom-made kilt to attend our niece’s wedding, so when Fred was measured up and then returned to collect the kilt six weeks later an.
