Necker Belle Necker Belle The Necker Belle is a 105-foot (32 m) private charter catamaran yacht, offered through Virgin Limited Edition and based at the resort Necker Island. The "Belle" superyacht is one of the few luxury sailing catamarans in the world. Prior to being purchased by Richard Branson's Virgin, the yacht was called "Lady Barbaretta", and cost £5.3 million for Branson to obtain. It required a two-year refit to emerge as the Belle, operates with a crew of seven, and is currently captained by Captain Piers Helm. The refit won the "2010 best new refit" at the World Superyacht Awards. The
Jacques Necker or falsifying the records. He brightened the picture by excluding military outlays and other 'extraordinary' charges and ignoring the national debt. As a specific example his compte rendu showed the king spend more on his brothers than on public health. After Necker had shown Louis XVI his annual report, the king tried to keep its contents secret. In revenge, Necker made the "Compte rendu au roi" public; in no time between 200,000 copies were sold. The Account was meant to be an educational piece for the people, and in it, he expressed his desire to create a well-informed, interested populace.