Tamara Ecclestone has admitted it ‘broke her heart’ that her daughter Sophia doesn’t feel safe in their home after horrific £25million burglary. 

On December 13, 2019, Tamara, her husband Jay Rutland, and daughter Sophia were in Lapland when three thieves broke in and plundered £25million worth of jewellery and cash from their home on ‘Billionaire’s Row’ in Kensington.

In just over an hour the burglars cleared the mansion of 400 items of jewellery and large sums of cash.

Appearing on Loose Women on Friday, Tamara opened up about the aftermath of the burglary as she explained she initially lied to her daughter, who was six at the time, about the robbery, but once she found out about it from someone else. 

The mother-of-two explained: ‘I actually learnt a really valuable lesson that it is really important to be honest with your children and they can handle a lot more than you think they will be able to.

‘I actually lied to Fifi about it because she was so young. But now she is older she is able to go online and google things and people tell her things so she found out not through me. 

Tamara Ecclestone has admitted it ‘breaks her heart’ that her daughter Sophia doesn’t feel safe in their home after their horrific £25million burglary back in 2019 

Tamara, 40, revealed it was ‘really hard’ explaining it to Sophia (pictured centre) as she said: ‘That was the bit that broke my heart the most was seeing how much it affected her’

‘We then obviously worked a lot on this and had a lot of conversations and it was really hard. That was the bit that broke my heart the most was seeing how much it affected her.’

She continued: ‘As parents you can always be strong for your kids and rationalise things, but to see her go through the fear that someone was in her house and it wasn’t the safe place she thought it is, was really really heartbreaking.’ 

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Tamara shares daughters Sophia and Serena, four, with her husband Jay. 

She also revealed that she was recently walking down the street with Sophia and she warned her eldest about having her iPad in her hand in case someone was to snatch it. 

Her daughter then asked her: ‘Really will be people do that?’ as Tamara explained they are trying to raise her to be aware that there are bad people, but the majority of people are good. 

Tamara, who is the daughter of former chief executive of Formula One Bernie Ecclestone, was then asked by host Kaye Adams whether she ever feels like a ‘target’ due to her wealth and wishes she wasn’t so rich. 

‘I feel like there is no point in looking it in that way and I am really blessed just to have such an amazing dad who I love so much so I am grateful regardless,’ explained Tamara. 

She added: ‘I have a beautiful life, my children and my family and that’s all that really matters to me. Of course there are things that aren’t perfect but I feel really lucky everyday I really do.’ 

It comes after Tamara spoke out on the robbery for the first time last week and revealed she believes it was an ‘inside job’ and fears some of the culprits will never face justice in the UK.

She continued: ‘As parents you can always be strong for your kids and rationalise things, but to see her go through the fear that someone was in her house and it wasn’t the safe place she thought it is, was really really heartbreaking’

Tamara explained they are trying to raise their children to be aware that there are bad people, but the majority of people are good.

Tamara shares daughters Sophia and Serena, four, with her husband Jay Rutland

Italian defendants Jugoslav Jovanovic, Alessandro Maltese and Alessandro Donati were jailed for a total of 28 at years at Isleworth Crown Court in November 2021 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to burgle.

Donati, 46, was given an eight-year sentence as was Alessandro Maltese, 47, while Jugoslav Jovanovic, 26, got 11 years. A cleaner was charged in connection with the burglary but later cleared of involvement.

MailOnline revealed Donati was freed just before last Christmas under the early release scheme for foreign prisoners, with Tamara later telling in a statement of her anger and ‘disappointment’ at him being released ‘so soon after the burglary occurred’.

Following the convictions an international manhunt was launched for the fourth man, named in court as Daniel Vukovic.

He is reported to have been charged in Serbia in June this year in connection with the crime, under the name Ljubomir Romanov, but has not been extradited to the UK.

Tamara says she now goes everywhere with two bodyguards out of fear of being kidnapped, as her 5ft 4in father has fallen victim to several burglaries.

She described how the burglary has ‘definitely made me feel that things aren’t always as they appear, people you think you can trust, you can’t always trust, which is a lesson I’ve learnt time and time again. This time it really hit home.’

Tamara, who is the daughter of former chief executive of Formula One Bernie Ecclestone (R), was then asked whether she ever feels like a ‘target’ due to her wealth (pictured in 2015) 

And the socialite told of her frustration that potential offenders remain on the run, while none of the 400 stolen items have been recovered.

She added: ‘The biggest letdown really is that the [other] people who did it will probably never be extradited to the UK.

‘I think it is worse getting caught and then nothing actually happening to them.’

When asked whether she thought the burglary was an ‘inside job’, she replied: ‘I’m not really allowed to speak about that but I don’t see how it’s not.’

Tamara also said of the burglary’s aftermath: ‘I just felt violated. We thought about moving, or moving country.

‘But then I thought, actually, this is my house and, before this happened, this has been such a happy place.’