London - A female postal worker from Scotland has won the largest lottery prize in British history, 35.4 million pounds (70.4 million dollars), the British media reported Wednesday. Single mother Angela Cunningham has said that she will quit work and swap her simple flat in East Kilbride near Glasgow for a luxury villa in Italy, the reports said.
Cunningham invested just 1.50 pounds in a lottery ticket for the EuroMillions draw, a Europe-wide lottery. She can now live comfortably off the interest from her multi-million-pound win.
Cunningham, 40, who was believed to earn a 16,000-pound salary, only checked her ticket three days after the draw.
She is now richer than princes William and Harry, the reports said.
"She was just screaming, 'Oh my God!' over and over and people were cheering when they heard," Cunningham's colleagues told Britain's The Sun daily.
"Angela was shaking and could hardly speak. I think she went for a cup to tea to try to calm down."
Irishwoman Dolores McNamara won the largest ever EuroMillions jackpot of 114 million euros (154 million dollars) in 2005.
