This is the British woman whose mystery death on board a £27million superyacht moored at an upmarket Spanish marina is being probed by police.
The alarm was raised by Charlotte Conradie’s colleagues at around 9pm after they went to check on her after she failed to respond to messages and answer calls.
She was found unresponsive in her cabin on the boat docked in Palma, Marjorca on Sunday evening.
Paramedics rushed to where it was moored, but there was nothing they could do to save her life, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Her exact cause of death remained an enigma last night; however, investigators are not treating the incident as criminal currently.
They are linking her passing to natural causes pending the outcome of the full autopsy.
Charlotte’s body was taken to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Palma for a post-mortem, which has yet to be fully completed.
Although she was a British passport holder and had been based in Europe for several years, Charlotte is thought to have been born in Zambia.
She worked as a stewardess at SuperYachts International before starting her current job, which is believed to have involved maintenance work.
In old Facebook posts, she pictures two horses she describes as her ‘two babies’. Meanwhile, several of her relatives live in South Africa.
The 29-year-old was working on a custom-built motor yacht named Lind, which costs nearly £300,000 a week to charter in high season.
The Cayman Islands-flagged 170ft vessel, built in the Netherlands with an exterior design by award-winning Tim Heywood, has a top speed of just over 15 knots and can accommodate up to ten guests as well as 13 crew members.
Its extras include an open-air cinema, jacuzzi, gym and inflatable trampolines.
The superyacht’s current owner is reported to be German billionaire Peter Alexander Wacker, who owns around 10 per cent of chemical company Wacker Chemie AG which was founded by his great-grandfather Alexander Wacker in 1914.
He worked for BMW for ten years before joining Wacker Chemie in 1993 as a member of the board, when it was still a privately owned company.
As of April 2024 his net worth was estimated by Forbes to be one billion dollars.
A Civil Guard spokesman in Majorca confirmed today: ‘The dead woman was a 29-year-old British national.’
A well-placed source close to the investigation said: ‘Everything is pointing to her death being the result of natural causes.
‘At this moment in time, it is not being treated as a crime although the results of the autopsy are still pending.’
The woman’s colleagues have been interviewed by police as part of standard procedure.
