Kirsty Bertarelli, 45, who married Swiss bio-tech tycoon Ernesto, 51, in 2000, has now swapped crowns for a private jet and super yacht lifestyle.
Originally from Staffordshire, Kirsty is worth more than the Queen, Adele and J.K. Rowling put together, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.
The couple, who have three kids together, are loaded with £11.5 billion – making them Britain's sixth richest couple.
She began writing songs in the mid-1990s, after moving to London and in 2013, Kirsty hit the road in a tour van.
And since then she's released six albums and a Christmas EP with her biggest hit to date for someone else.
Girl group All Saints' fifth and final No1 single in the UK, Black Coffee, was reworked from a song Kirsty wrote.
I Wouldn't Want To Be was about the early days of her relationship with Ernesto.
Kirsty says: "Hearing my song on the radio brought mixed emotions. I have to be thankful to All Saints – they could make it No1 – but I knew the emotions behind the song.
"I wanted to sing it because there had been real meaning behind it, which was my love for Ernesto."
She tweets links to her songs and studio footage on YouTube, while her website directs fans to her songs on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify.
Kirsty left school with seven O levels and at the age of 16, she joined Manchester Model Agency.
In April 1988, Kirsty was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis, she said: "I had anaemia to begin with and then collapsed at home. At first my parents thought I had [the] flu.
"It was bewildering. I was on a drip for a week."
She slowly recovered, but it hit her confidence and luckily her agency boss eventually persuaded her to enter the Miss Manchester beauty pageant.
Kirsty won and later that year was crowned Miss UK and finished third in Miss World.
She embraces her beauty-queen past, saying: "It's part of life's tapestry, it has shaped the way I am and it was a stepping stone. In fact, I'm quite proud of it."
Britain's top 10 richest businesswomen
1 – Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken, 62, is the owner of Heineken beer and is worth £9.3bn
2 – Denise Coates, 49, is the founder and chief executive of Bet365 and is worth £5bn
3 – Lady Tina Green, 67, wife of Sir Philip Green, owns 92% of Arcadia group, parent of Topshop is worth £2.8bn
4 – Dame Mary Perkin, 73, is the co-founder of Specsavers and is worth £1.62bn
5 – Christina Ong, 69, is also known as the "Queen of Bond Street" is a major stakeholder of Mulberry and is worth £1.2bn
6 – Kiran Mazumbar-Shaw, 64, is the chairman and managing director of Biocon Limited and is worth £1.15bn
7 – Ann Gloag, 74, is the co-founder of Stagecoach Group and is worth £920m
8 – Mireille Gingras, 73, is a biotech entrepreneur and is worth £900m
9 – Yelena Baturina, 54, is the founder of Inteco and BEOPEN and is worth £822m
10 – Nichola Pease, 56, is a British fund manager and is worth £775m
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