The TV Queen Princess Beatrice who is known for her jet-setting lifestyle
with skiing holidays, trips to the Caribbean and vacations in New York - but
has now been spotted taking to the water on Roman Abramovich's £1billion
superyacht alongside Oprah Winfrey.
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The 26-year-old was seen with her boyfriend Dave Clark on
the Chelsea FC owner and Russian oligarch's luxury boat - once the world's largest
superyacht - which was docked off the Spanish coast near Ibiza.
The royal has racked up an impressive 17 holidays in a
little over eight months, but this one may well be her most extravagant.
Beatrice has enjoyed a string of holidays since giving up
her £20,000-a-year role at Sony last year and began her sunshine travels with a
trip to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix back in November.
She has spent much of the time abroad and has chalked up
four skiing holidays - three at her parents’ new £13million chalet in Verbier
and one in the US - and trips to St Barts, Greece, New York, Florida, Bahrain,
Italy and China and the United Arab Emirates.
The 26-year-old was spotted on holiday in May soaking up the
sun beside her boyfriend in the exclusive Great Guana Cay - an islet which
forms part of the Bahamas. In the same month she spent the weekend at a society
wedding in Rome.
Measuring 536ft in length (a shade over one-and-a-half
football pitches), the yacht - named Eclipse - can accommodate 36 guests and 70
crew.
Mr Abramovich and his guests are protected by a missile
defence system and bullet-proof glass.
Commissioned in 2006, and designed by British guru Terence
Disdale, the world’s most famous creator of ostentatious super-yachts, Eclipse
took six years for German shipbuilder Blohm & Voss to construct.
She now costs around £50 million a year to keep afloat, a
sum occasionally offset by income from charters: she can be rented out for
£175,000 per day.
Though initially the world’s largest private yacht, her
reign was short-lived: in 2013, Eclipse was knocked off its perch by Azzam,
owned by the Emirati royal family.
Earlier this year, Eclipse spent two months docked in
Hamburg for a refit. During that time, Mr Abramovich was forced to make use of
his second-string yacht: the 165ft Sussurro, which he occasionally loans to
friends and his Chelsea footballers.
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