Miss England
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. Entrants must hold a British passport
British passport
British passports may be issued to people holding any of the various forms of British nationality, and are used as evidence of the bearer's nationality and immigration status within the United Kingdom or the issuing state/territory.-Issuing:...
to enter.
The contest, title owned by the Miss World
Miss World
The Miss World pageant is the oldest surviving major international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951...
organisation is organised each year by Angie Beasley, 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
Miss Scotland
The Miss Scotland competition is an annual beauty pageant targeted at women aged 18–24 living in Scotland. Entrants must hold a British passport to enter...
and Miss Wales
Miss Wales
Miss Wales is an annual beauty pageant held in Wales, United Kingdom to select a representative to go through to the Miss World contest. It is currently run by Paula Abbandonato and Clare Birt of Vibe Models, Cardiff.-Rules:...
.
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
News of the World
The News of the World was a national red top newspaper published in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the biggest selling English language newspaper in the world, and at closure still had one of the highest English language circulations...
& "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 Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
, The Daily Mail and various magazines including Teen Vogue
Teen Vogue
Teen Vogue magazine began as a version of Vogue magazine for teenage girls. This US magazine focuses on fashion and celebrities and offers information about the latest entertainment and feature stories on current issues and events.- Description :...
in New York and Hello!
Hello!
Hello is a weekly magazine specializing in celebrity news and human-interest stories, published in the United Kingdom since 1988. Hello is sister magazine to ¡Hola!, the Spanish weekly magazine launched in Spain in 1944...
have carried stories on local and national winners.
The winner of the Miss England competition, along with the winners of Miss Northern Ireland
Miss Northern Ireland
Miss Northern Ireland is a beauty pageant, the winner of which goes on to compete in the Miss World pageant.Before 1999, the winner of Miss Anton Northern Ireland would have to compete in the Miss United Kingdom competition and win it in order to be applicable to compete in the Miss World competition...
, Miss Scotland
Miss Scotland
The Miss Scotland competition is an annual beauty pageant targeted at women aged 18–24 living in Scotland. Entrants must hold a British passport to enter...
and Miss Wales
Miss Wales
Miss Wales is an annual beauty pageant held in Wales, United Kingdom to select a representative to go through to the Miss World contest. It is currently run by Paula Abbandonato and Clare Birt of Vibe Models, Cardiff.-Rules:...
, can compete in Miss World
Miss World
The Miss World pageant is the oldest surviving major international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951...
. The highest ranking competitor of the four constituent country
Constituent country
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entrants is then presented with the title and crown of Miss United Kingdom.
The 2008 contest became notable for featuring a plus-size model
Plus-size model
Plus-size model is a term applied to a person who is engaged primarily in modeling plus-size clothing. Plus-size models also engaged in work that is not strictly related to selling large-sized clothing, e.g., stock photography and advertising photography for cosmetics, household and pharmaceutical...
, Chloe Marshall
Chloe Marshall
Chloe Elizabeth Marshall is an English plus-size model from Cranleigh, Surrey. Having won the Miss Surrey title in March 2008, she became the first size 16 model to reach the finals for the Miss England tiara....
and an army
British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
personnel, Katrina Hodge
Katrina Hodge
Corporal Katrina Hodge is a serving member of the British Army from Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent in south-east England who was Miss England 2009.-Biography:...
, a first for its kind.
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 since the line up was announced, runner up was Miss London Rissikat Bade.
From 1928 to 1936
| Year | Miss England |
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| 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) |
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| 1953 | Marlene Dee | did not compete | did not compete | unplaced |
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| 1955 | Margaret Rowe | Top 15 |
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| 1956 | Iris Alice Kathleen Waller | 3rd runner up | Winner | unplaced | |||
| 1957 | Sonia Hamilton | 2nd runner up | did not compete |
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| 1958 | Dorothy Hazeldine | unplaced | did not compete |
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| 1959 | Pamela Ann Searle | 3rd runner up |
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| 1960 | Joan Ellinor Boardman | Top 15 | did not compete |
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| 1961 | Arlette Dobson | 3rd runner up | did not compete |
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| 1962 | Kim Carlton | Top 15 |
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| 1963 | Susan Pratt | did not compete | did not compete |
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| 1964 | Brenda Blacker | 1st runner up | did not compete |
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| 1965 | Jennifer Warren Gurley | unplaced | did not compete |
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| 1966 | Janice Carol Whiteman | Top 15 | did not compete |
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| 1967 | Jennifer Lynn Lewis | Leicester Leicester Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest... |
2nd runner up | Winner | 4th runner up |
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| 1968 | Jennifer Lowe Summers | Manchester Manchester Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater... |
Top 15 | Winner (of 1966) | Top 15 (of 1966) |
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| 1969 | Myra Van Heck | unplaced | did not compete | ||||
| 1970 | Yvonne Anne Ormes | Nantwich Nantwich Nantwich is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The town gives its name to the parliamentary constituency of Crewe and Nantwich... |
unplaced | Winner | 6th runner up | ||
| 1971 | Marilyn Ann Ward | New Milton New Milton New Milton is a market town in south west Hampshire, England. The town has a high street and holds a market every Wednesday. Situated on the edge of the New Forest, the town is about 6 miles west of Lymington town centre and 12 miles east of Bournemouth town centre.-History:New Milton dates back... |
Top 12 | Winner | 1st runner up | ||
| 1972 | Jennifer Mary McAdam | 4th runner up | Winner | 6th runner up |
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| 1973 | Veronica Ann Cross Veronica Ann Cross Veronica Ann Cross, daughter of a Covent Garden opera singer, won the Miss United Kingdom beauty pageant in 1973.At 16 years old, upon leaving school, Cross successfully applied for a job as a photographic model with an agency in London... |
unplaced | Winner | 6th runner up | |||
| 1974 | Kathleen Ann Celeste Anders | Rochdale Rochdale Rochdale is a large market town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the foothills of the Pennines on the River Roch, north-northwest of Oldham, and north-northeast of the city of Manchester. Rochdale is surrounded by several smaller settlements which together form the Metropolitan... |
Top 12 | 1st runner up | did not compete |
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| 1975 | Vicki Harris | London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its... |
Top 12 | Winner | 2nd runner up | ||
| 1976 | Pauline Davies Pauline Bull Pauline Bull is a former English model and artist. She has a brother, sister and mother in the UK.Pauline was a draughtswoman until leaving to become a full time successful photographic fashion model... |
Manchester | Top 12 |
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Top 15 | did not compete |
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| 1977 | Sarah Louise Long | Bristol Bristol Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007... |
unplaced | 2nd runner up | did not compete |
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| 1978 | Beverley Isherwood | Manchester | unplaced | 2nd runner up | did not compete |
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| 1979 | Carolyn Seaward | Yelverton, Devon Yelverton, Devon Yelverton is a large village on the south-western edge of Dartmoor, Devon, in England.When the village's railway station opened in the 19th century, the village became a popular residence for Plymouth commuters... |
2nd runner up |
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| 1980 | Julie Duckworth | Blackpool Blackpool Blackpool is a borough, seaside town, and unitary authority area of Lancashire, in North West England. It is situated along England's west coast by the Irish Sea, between the Ribble and Wyre estuaries, northwest of Preston, north of Liverpool, and northwest of Manchester... |
unplaced | 2nd runner up | did not compete | ||
| 1981 | Joanna Longley** | Bristol | unplaced | did not compete | did not compete |
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| 1982 | Della Frances Dolan | Grimsby Grimsby Grimsby is a seaport on the Humber Estuary in Lincolnshire, England. It has been the administrative centre of the unitary authority area of North East Lincolnshire since 1996... |
Top 12 | Winner | 2nd runner up | ||
| 1983 | Karen Lesley Moore | Southsea Southsea Southsea is a seaside resort located in Portsmouth at the southern end of Portsea Island in the county of Hampshire in England. Southsea is within a mile of Portsmouth's city centre.... |
4th runner up | 1st runner up | did not compete |
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| 1984 | Louise Gray | Sheffield Sheffield Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely... |
unplaced | Top 7 | did not compete | ||
| 1985 | Helen Westlake | London | unplaced | Top 15 | did not compete | ||
| 1986 | Joanne Sedgley | Newquay Newquay Newquay is a town, civil parish, seaside resort and fishing port in Cornwall, England. It is situated on the North Atlantic coast of Cornwall approximately west of Bodmin and north of Truro.... |
unplaced | 1st runner up | did not compete | ||
| 1987 | Yvette Dawn Livesey | unplaced | did not compete | ||||
| 1988 | Tracey Williams | unplaced |
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| 1989 | Racquel Jory | unplaced | 1st runner up | did not compete |
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| 1990 | Carla Barrow | unplaced | did not compete |
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From 2000 to Present
| Year | Miss England | City Represented | Placement in Miss World |
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| 2000 | Michelle Walker | Liverpool | unplaced |
| 2001 | Sally Kettle | Leicester | unplaced |
| 2002 | Danielle Luan | Oxford Oxford The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through... |
unplaced |
| 2003 | Jackie Turner | Poole Poole Poole is a large coastal town and seaport in the county of Dorset, on the south coast of England. The town is east of Dorchester, and Bournemouth adjoins Poole to the east. The Borough of Poole was made a unitary authority in 1997, gaining administrative independence from Dorset County Council... |
unplaced |
| 2004 | Danielle Lloyd Danielle Lloyd Danielle Lloyd is an English glamour model. The former Miss England 2004 and Miss Great Britain 2006, she first rose to prominence when she was stripped of her Miss Great Britain 2006 title after posing for nude pictures featured in the December 2006 edition of Playboy magazine and her alleged... |
Liverpool | unplaced |
| 2005 | Hammasa Kohistani Hammasa Kohistani Hammasa Kohistani is a British model, who became the first Muslim beauty contestant to be crowned Miss England in 2005. She was crowned at the age of 18, following a two-day competition at Liverpool's Olympia Theatre on 3 September 2005, and was chosen from 40 contestants... |
London | unplaced |
| 2006 | Eleanor Glynn Eleanor Glynn Eleanor Mary Anne Glynn is an English gothic metal vocalist, songwriter,band front woman, fashion designer, record producer, model, belly dancer, musician and actress professionally known as ' Eleanor ', who won the Miss England 2006/7 title on the 14th of July 2006, she later went on to represent... |
Oxford | unplaced |
| 2007 | Georgia Horsley Georgia Horsley Georgia Faye Horsley won the Miss England 2007 title and the opportunity to represent England in the Miss World 2007 pageant which was held in Sanya, China on 1 December that year.-Biography:... |
York York York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence... |
unplaced |
| 2008 | Laura Coleman Laura Coleman Laura Coleman is an English model, who won the Miss England 2008 beauty pageant.-Biography:Born in Melton Mowbray, Coleman comes from a family of beauty pagent winners. Her maternal grandmother Irene become Miss Army Pin-Up and Miss Lovely Legs in the 1940s... |
Derby Derby Derby , is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands region of England. It lies upon the banks of the River Derwent and is located in the south of the ceremonial county of Derbyshire. In the 2001 census, the population of the city was 233,700, whilst that of the Derby Urban Area was 229,407... |
unplaced |
| 2009 | Rachel Christie Rachel Christie Rachel Sophia Adina Christie is a British beauty pageant contestant and athlete who was briefly Miss England 2009, and the first black mixed race woman to hold the title.-Personal:... |
London | resigned |
| Katrina Hodge Katrina Hodge Corporal Katrina Hodge is a serving member of the British Army from Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent in south-east England who was Miss England 2009.-Biography:... |
Royal Tunbridge Wells Royal Tunbridge Wells Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in west Kent, England, about south-east of central London by road, by rail. The town is close to the border of the county of East Sussex... |
unplaced | |
| 2010 | Jessica Linley Jessica Linley Jessica Linley is a university student and commercial model who was crowned Miss England on 1 September 2010. She is originally from Norwich. She represented Nottingham at the Miss England competition and England at Miss World 2010.... |
Nottingham Nottingham Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group... |
unplaced |
| 2011 | Alize Lily Mounter | TBA | 3rd Runner Up |