On 10 August 2007, Angela Kelly, a 40-year-old former Royal Mail postal administrator from East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, won a EuroMillions jackpot of €52.6 million (£35.4 million). This is the largest lottery win ever in the United Kingdom.
On 31 March 2006, after rolling over six times, the EuroMillions jackpot of €75,753,123 ($100,175,909) was won by one Belgian man, the second biggest win ever in Belgium, and the third-biggest prize won by a single person.
On 9 February 2007, a Belgian man won the EuroMillions jackpot of €100 million ($132 million or £67.9 million) with a ticket bought in a newspaper shop in Tienen. This is the biggest lottery win in Belgium and the second-biggest individual win in EuroMillions history.
On 31 July 2005, after rolling over nine times, the EuroMillions jackpot of €115 million ($152 million) was won on a ticket purchased in Garryowen, Limerick, Ireland. The winner was Dolores McNamara, a 45-year-old mother of six; she remains the biggest individual winner in Euromillions history. She claimed the prize on 4 August 2005 at the Irish National Lottery's headquarters in Dublin.
On 3 February 2006, after rolling over eleven times, the EuroMillions jackpot of €180 million ($238 million) was won by three ticket holders, two in France and one in Portugal. The three winners won €60 million ($79 million) each.
By 17 November 2006, after rolling over eleven times, the EuroMillions jackpot reached €183 million ($241 million or £124 million). No ticket matched all the winning numbers for the twelfth draw, so the jackpot was divided among the twenty tickets that matched five numbers and one lucky star. Each such ticket was worth €9.6 million ($12.6 million), i.e., 5% of the jackpot plus the regular match 5 +1 prize. Seven of the twenty tickets were sold in the United Kingdom, four in France, three each in Spain and Portugal, two in the Republic of Ireland, and one in Belgium.
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