Julia Morley
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| Born | Julia Evelyn Pritchard 25 October 1939 London, England |
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| Children | 5 |
Julia Evelyn Morley CBE (née Pritchard; born 25 October 1939) is an English businesswoman, charity worker and former model. She is the chairman and CEO of the Miss World Organization, which organizes the Miss World and Mister World pageants.[1] She is the widow of Miss World creator, the late Eric Morley who organized the pageant from its inception in July 1951, until his death in 2000.
Life and career
[edit | edit source]Born in London, she worked as a model, and met Eric Morley, then a director of Mecca Dancing, at a dance hall in Leeds; the couple married in 1960.[2] She became chairman of Miss World after her husband died in 2000.[3]
As chairman of Miss World, she introduced "Beauty With A Purpose", in 1972, which raises money in support of sick and disadvantaged children.[4] In 2009, Morley used the opening of the Miss World Festival to launch the Variety International Children’s Fund with a Charity Dinner which raised over $400,000 for nutritional, educational and medical projects in Haiti.[5] She was conferred the Priyadarshini Award for her ‘Save the Children’ campaign.[6] In 2016, Morley received the Variety Humanitarian Award.[7]
Morley was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for charitable and voluntary services to disadvantaged people in the UK and abroad.[8]
References
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- ^ "Obituary: Eric Morley", The Telegraph, 10 November 2000. Retrieved 6 October 2013
- ^ "Miss World 2013: "Contest Empowers Women And Gives Them A Voice" Says Chair Julia Morley", Huffington Post, 28 September 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2013
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Julia Morley at IMDb
- 1939 births
- Living people
- Miss World
- Beauty pageant owners
- English female models
- British chairpersons of corporations
- 20th-century English businesswomen
- 20th-century English businesspeople
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- 21st-century English businesswomen
- 21st-century English businesspeople
- Models from London