Angela Kelly, 40, from East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, won 35.4 million pounds ($70.4 million in Friday's EuroMillions draw, the largest lottery prize in British history. Angela Kelly, who also uses her maiden name Cunningham, is a Royal mail worker. She wasn’t aware of her win until Monday.

The ticket was in her handbag and she only checked it at work when she realized the jackpot of the Europe-wide lottery had gone unclaimed.

She asked her colleagues at the Royal Mail sorting office where she works to check the numbers because she could not believe she might have won.

"I couldn't even say anything, I just pushed my chair back and my head between my knees, I was so flabbergasted," she said. Cunningham invested just 1.50 pounds in a lottery ticket for the EuroMillions draw. She can now live comfortably off the interest from her multi-million-pound win.

"I couldn't believe its when the numbers were there in a row," she said. "I feel totally in limbo. I just need to sit down to get my thoughts together," Ms Kelly said.

According to the media reports, she will leave the sorting office where she has worked for over 20 years next week and maybe she will move in Italy.

"My son does not want to move out of the flat and I don't want to move too far away because he is going into fourth year at school." she said.

"It is such an amazing feeling to have won this much money but to be honest I'm still in shock and it's only just starting to sink in," the 40-year-old told British media Wednesday.

Angela Kelly is now richer than the British princes William and Harry and Wayne Rooney.