Kirsty Bertarelli is not only this year’s richest Midlander for the fourth year in succession; she is the richest woman in the UK and one of the richest in the world. Ms Bertarelli – formerly Kirsty Roper from Stone in Staffordshire who was crowned Miss UK in 1988 –married the biotechnology tycoon Ernesto Bertarelli in 2000 after meeting him three years earlier at a party in Sardinia.Read