Miss England

Miss England
Formation	1928
Type	Beauty Pageant
Headquarters	London
Location	England
Website	Miss England Official website

Laura Coleman, Miss England 2008

The Miss England competition is an annual beauty pageant targeted at young females aged 17–24 years living in England. Entrants must hold a British passport to enter.

The contest, title owned by the Miss World organisation is organised each year by Angie Beasley,^{[citation needed]} a winner of 25 beauty contests in the 80s and has organised beauty pageants around the country on behalf of Miss World, including Miss United Kingdom, Mr UK, Miss England, Miss Scotland and Miss Wales.

The contest often attracts celebrity judges at local and national finals. Many celebrities have also judged the regional heats for the competition around the country including top glamour model Jordan, who joined the judging panel for Miss Sussex.

The Miss England competition is promoted to thousands of women around England in local media by a series of area heats held around the country.

News of the World & "Take a Break" magazine have previously sponsored contestants over the years, writing features on contestants and used the winners on the front covers. Various newspapers, including the Daily Mirror, The Times, The Daily Mail and various magazines including Teen Vogue in New York and Hello! have carried stories on local and national winners.

The winner of the Miss England competition, along with the winners of Miss Northern Ireland, Miss Scotland and Miss Wales, can compete in Miss World. The highest ranking competitor of the four constituent country entrants is then presented with the title and crown of Miss United Kingdom.

The 2008 contest became notable for featuring a plus-size model, Chloe Marshall and an army personnel, Katrina Hodge, a first for its kind.^[1]

Since the pageant's inception of more than 50 years ago, no title holder had gone on to win any international contest. However several Miss England contestants had almost clinched an international crown for England, placing in the 1st runner up position for five times; once in Miss Universe, and twice each in Miss World (as Miss United Kingdom) and Miss Europe.

The 2011 event was won by Alize Lily Mounter who was classed as Miss Everymodel, she was the favourite to win the competition ^[2] since the line up was announced, runner up was Miss London Rissikat Bade.

Titleholders and their Achievements

From 1928 to 1936

Year	Miss England
1928	Nonni Shields
1929	Benny Dick
1930	Marjorie Ross
1931	Bettie Mason
1932	Gwen Stallard
1933	Angela Ward
1934	June Lammas
1935	Muriel Oxford
1936	Laurence Atkins

From 1953 to 1990

Year	Miss England	City Represented	Placement in Miss Universe (as Miss England)	Special awards at Miss Universe	Placement in Miss United Kingdom (as Miss England)	Placement in Miss World (as Miss United Kingdom)	Notes
1953	Marlene Dee		did not compete		did not compete	unplaced	took part in Miss Europe 1953, and was placed 1st runner up was a contestant (under the banner of 'Britain') in the first edition of Miss World
1955	Margaret Rowe		Top 15	Most Popular Girl in Parade	did not compete	did not compete	took part in Miss Europe 1955
1956	Iris Alice Kathleen Waller		3rd runner up		Winner	unplaced
1957	Sonia Hamilton		2nd runner up			did not compete	was Miss Europe 1957 4th runner up
1958	Dorothy Hazeldine		unplaced			did not compete	took part in Miss Europe 1958
1959	Pamela Ann Searle		3rd runner up	Miss Photogenic		did not compete
1960	Joan Ellinor Boardman		Top 15			did not compete	took part in Miss Europe 1960
1961	Arlette Dobson		3rd runner up			did not compete	was Miss Europe 1961 1st runner up
1962	Kim Carlton		Top 15	Miss Photogenic Best National Costume		did not compete	took part in Miss Europe 1962
1963	Susan Pratt		did not compete			did not compete	took part in Miss Europe 1963 met with an auto accident on the first night in Miami where the Miss Universe pageant was held, and was seated on a chair on the stage on the final night
1964	Brenda Blacker		1st runner up			did not compete	obtained the highest placing record for an English delegate in the history of Miss Universe took part in Miss Europe 1964
1965	Jennifer Warren Gurley		unplaced			did not compete	took part in Miss Europe 1965
1966	Janice Carol Whiteman		Top 15			did not compete	took part in Miss Europe 1966
1967	Jennifer Lynn Lewis	Leicester	2nd runner up		Winner	4th runner up	took part in Miss Europe 1967
1968	Jennifer Lowe Summers	Manchester	Top 15		Winner (of 1966)	Top 15 (of 1966)	took part in Miss Europe 1968
1969	Myra Van Heck		unplaced			did not compete
1970	Yvonne Anne Ormes	Nantwich	unplaced		Winner	6th runner up
1971	Marilyn Ann Ward	New Milton	Top 12		Winner	1st runner up
1972	Jennifer Mary McAdam		4th runner up		Winner	6th runner up	was Miss Europe 1972 4th runner up
1973	Veronica Ann Cross		unplaced		Winner	6th runner up
1974	Kathleen Ann Celeste Anders	Rochdale	Top 12		1st runner up	did not compete	was Miss Europe 1974 4th runner up
1975	Vicki Harris	London	Top 12		Winner	2nd runner up
1976	Pauline Davies	Manchester	Top 12	Miss Photogenic	Top 15	did not compete	took part in Miss Europe 1976
1977	Sarah Louise Long	Bristol	unplaced		2nd runner up	did not compete	was Miss Europe 1978 2nd runner up
1978	Beverley Isherwood	Manchester	unplaced		2nd runner up	did not compete	took part in Miss International 1979
1979	Carolyn Seaward	Yelverton, Devon	2nd runner up	Miss Photogenic	Winner	1st runner up
1980	Julie Duckworth	Blackpool	unplaced		2nd runner up	did not compete
1981	Joanna Longley**	Bristol	unplaced		did not compete	did not compete	took part in Miss Europe 1981 competed at Miss Universe and Miss Europe as 'Miss England', however she did not win the title organised through the Mecca/Morley competition and thus was not 'officially' Miss England.
1982	Della Frances Dolan	Grimsby	Top 12		Winner	2nd runner up
1983	Karen Lesley Moore	Southsea	4th runner up		1st runner up	did not compete	was one of the top 10 delegates at Miss Europe 1984 was one of the top 15 delegates at Miss International 1984
1984	Louise Gray	Sheffield	unplaced		Top 7	did not compete
1985	Helen Westlake	London	unplaced		Top 15	did not compete
1986	Joanne Sedgley	Newquay	unplaced		1st runner up	did not compete
1987	Yvette Dawn Livesey		unplaced			did not compete
1988	Tracey Williams		unplaced	Miss Photogenic		did not compete
1989	Racquel Jory		unplaced		1st runner up	did not compete	took part in Miss Europe 1991
1990	Carla Barrow		unplaced			did not compete	was the last Miss England to compete in Miss Universe

From 2000 to Present

Year	Miss England	City Represented	Placement in Miss World
2000	Michelle Walker	Liverpool	unplaced
2001	Sally Kettle	Leicester	unplaced
2002	Danielle Luan	Oxford	unplaced
2003	Jackie Turner	Poole	unplaced
2004	Danielle Lloyd	Liverpool	unplaced
2005	Hammasa Kohistani	London	unplaced
2006	Eleanor Glynn	Oxford	unplaced
2007	Georgia Horsley	York	unplaced
2008	Laura Coleman	Derby	unplaced
2009	Rachel Christie	London	resigned
	Katrina Hodge	Royal Tunbridge Wells	unplaced
2010	Jessica Linley[3]	Nottingham	unplaced
2011	Alize Lily Mounter	TBA	3rd Runner Up

References

1. ^ BBC - Newsbeat - Health - Size 16 girl in Miss England final
2. ^ "Mounter set to represent England". http://www.freebetsblog.com/bookmakers/competitive-betting-market-open-for-miss-england-2011/. 
3. ^ "Law student in Miss World title bid The Press Association, 02-09-2010.

Bibliography

• http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article192712.ece

External links

• Miss Grand Slam
• Miss World
• Miss Earth
• The official Miss England homepage
• BBC Newsbeat - 'Size 16 girl in Miss England final'