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Former maths teacher divorcing Britain's wealthiest woman entrepreneur worth £ BILLION because he doesn't like being rich and prefers to eat in Wetherspoon's
- Tony Hawken, 57, is divorcing millionairess wife Xiu Li, 51, after 21 years
- Couple met on a blind date while he was a teacher and she was a student
- Couple suddenly became rich in when Li's idea of building shopping centres into Chinese air-raid shelters made her £billion
- They traded modest semi in South Norwood for £million home in Surrey
- Mr Hawken doesn't like being rich and 'isn't in the habit' of spending
- After the split he will get £1million, but says it is enough for him
By CHRIS PLEASANCE
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They say you can't have too much of a good thing, but try telling that to the husband who's divorcing Britain's wealthiest female entrepreneur.
Former maths teacher Tony Hawken, 57, is splitting from Xiu Li, 51, because he says he is fed up with being wealthy.
The couple were catapulted into the world of the super-rich after Li's idea of building shopping centres in disused Chinese air-raid shelters earned her an estimated £billion by and placed her on The Sunday Times Rich List.
Tony Hawken, 57, is divorcing his wife Xiu Li, 51, Britain's wealthiest woman entrepreneur, because he says
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Rich list suggests UK richest seeing funds recovering
Steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal continues to top the list, but his fortune has fallen by nearly £5bn (22%) in the past year, now standing at £bn.
The drop in share price of his business AcelorMittal made him the highest faller in the list in terms of total wealth.
The biggest increase in wealth was seen by another steel magnate, Alisher Usmanov, moving up six places to number two after adding £bn to his fortune.
The Duke of Westminster has increased his wealth by £m but falls out of the top three for the first time since
Another new billionaire is Tory peer Lord Kirkham, 66, with his family, after selling sofa business DFS to private equity group Advent International. The Kirkham family's wealth stands at £1bn, up from £m last year.
There are 40 British-born billionaires including Charles Dunstone, 46, the chairman of Carphone Warehouse and Talk Talk.
His fortune has risen by £m to £1bn in a year, after the demerger of Carphone Warehouse, which he co-founded in , and Talk Talk.
The highest new entry among the women is Xiuli Hawken, 48, worth £bn.
Married to a London teacher, she made her property fortune converting air raid shelters in China into underground shopping malls.
The list, compiled by Philip Beres
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