<p class="title">The Hinduja brothers are once again the wealthiest people in Britain, according to The Sunday Times newspaper’s Rich List 2019.</p>.<p class="bodytext">London-based Sri and Gopi Hinduja, of the sprawling Hinduja Group of companies, have a fortune worth £22.0 billion, up by £1.4bn from last year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Indian-born brothers previously topped the respected annual Rich List, which ranks the 1,000 wealthiest people in Britain, in 2014 and 2017.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Jim Ratcliffe, the boss of petrochemicals firm Ineos, fell from first place to third after a reported £2.9bn drop to £18.15bn.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The list features a record 151 sterling billionaires with a combined wealth of nearly £525 billion — a 9.2% rise on last year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Inventor James Dyson reached his highest-ever position as he prepares to move Dyson’s head office from England to Singapore. The Brexit-backing businessman climbed seven places to become the fifth-richest person in Britain with an estimated £12.6 billion.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Queen Elizabeth II’s personal wealth — as apart from that tied to the crown — remained at £370 million, making her the joint 356th-richest person in her kingdom. “We take the view that the Crown Estate belongs to the state and is not a personal asset,” The Sunday Times said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Were it to be counted (as it once was), it is most likely that the queen would still sit at — or be very close to — the top of the Rich List, a position she occupied from 1989 to 1994.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">The sovereign is the 17th-wealthiest aristocrat in Britain, with the Duke of Westminster and the Grosvenor family coming top with £10.1 billion. They own 300 acres (120 hectares) of prime central London.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 28-year-old duke topped the rich list of people under 30, which included singer Ed Sheeran in fifth place with £160m — the highest without inherited wealth — golfer Rory McIlroy sixth with £138m, footballer Gareth Bale seventh with £94m and actor Daniel Radcliffe eighth with £90m.</p>
<p class="title">The Hinduja brothers are once again the wealthiest people in Britain, according to The Sunday Times newspaper’s Rich List 2019.</p>.<p class="bodytext">London-based Sri and Gopi Hinduja, of the sprawling Hinduja Group of companies, have a fortune worth £22.0 billion, up by £1.4bn from last year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Indian-born brothers previously topped the respected annual Rich List, which ranks the 1,000 wealthiest people in Britain, in 2014 and 2017.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Jim Ratcliffe, the boss of petrochemicals firm Ineos, fell from first place to third after a reported £2.9bn drop to £18.15bn.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The list features a record 151 sterling billionaires with a combined wealth of nearly £525 billion — a 9.2% rise on last year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Inventor James Dyson reached his highest-ever position as he prepares to move Dyson’s head office from England to Singapore. The Brexit-backing businessman climbed seven places to become the fifth-richest person in Britain with an estimated £12.6 billion.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Queen Elizabeth II’s personal wealth — as apart from that tied to the crown — remained at £370 million, making her the joint 356th-richest person in her kingdom. “We take the view that the Crown Estate belongs to the state and is not a personal asset,” The Sunday Times said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Were it to be counted (as it once was), it is most likely that the queen would still sit at — or be very close to — the top of the Rich List, a position she occupied from 1989 to 1994.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">The sovereign is the 17th-wealthiest aristocrat in Britain, with the Duke of Westminster and the Grosvenor family coming top with £10.1 billion. They own 300 acres (120 hectares) of prime central London.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 28-year-old duke topped the rich list of people under 30, which included singer Ed Sheeran in fifth place with £160m — the highest without inherited wealth — golfer Rory McIlroy sixth with £138m, footballer Gareth Bale seventh with £94m and actor Daniel Radcliffe eighth with £90m.</p>