The marriage of pop queen Madonna and film director Guy Ritchie is officially over after a district judge granted them a “quickie divorce” this morning.

While the superstar singer has rarely blended in during her 25 years at the top, today her marriage was just another of 16 dissolved by District Judge Reid at the clinical Principal Registry of the Family Division in High Holburn, London.

Neither Madonna, 50, nor Ritchie, 40, were in court to see their seven-and-a-half-year marriage – heard as Ciccone M L v Ritchie G S – swiftly dissolved by decree nisi.

Ritchie, who has amassed a fortune estimated at £30m through box office favourites Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, is understood to have walked away from the marriage without seeking any part of Madonna’s wealth.