Penelope Plummer

{{short description|Australian model, actress, and beauty queen}}

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| name = Penelope Plummer

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|10|26|df=y}}

| birth_place = Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia

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| occupation = Model

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| known_for = Miss World Australia

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Penelope Plummer (born 26 October 1949) is an Australian actress, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 1968.{{Cite web|url=https://www.missworld.com/1960-s/1968.html|title=Miss World - 1968 {{!}} 1960's|date=2010-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100429085856/https://www.missworld.com/1960-s/1968.html|archive-date=2010-04-29|access-date=2018-02-26}} The then 18-year-old librarian from Kempsey, New South Wales, became the first contestant from her country to win the title.[http://www.behindthecrown.com/worldlookingback.html Behind the crown] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707223016/http://www.behindthecrown.com/worldlookingback.html |date=2011-07-07}}[https://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=63kyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GrkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1725,3578252&dq=penelope+plummer&hl=en Miss Australia tops them all for world crown] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227135140/https://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=63kyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GrkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1725,3578252&dq=penelope+plummer&hl=en |date=2018-02-27 }}[http://www.watoday.com.au/news/sport/check-out-the-figures-then-have-something-on-an-african-win/2008/11/20/1226770645092.html Check out the figures, then have something on an African win] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325205605/http://www.watoday.com.au/news/sport/check-out-the-figures-then-have-something-on-an-african-win/2008/11/20/1226770645092.html |date=2012-03-25 }} The pageant was held in London, United Kingdom.

After winning the Miss World Contest, Plummer appeared in The 1969 Bob Hope Christmas Show in Osan, Korea, along with Swedish-American actress Ann-Margret.{{cite book|last1=Wyllie|first1=Arthur|title=Angel on My Shoulder|date=2005|publisher=PublishAmerica|isbn=9781413767872|pages=52–55|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vWOAhs8VEF4C&pg=PA52|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227135140/https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vWOAhs8VEF4C&pg=PA52|archive-date=2018-02-27}}{{cite book|author1=Colin L Powell|author2=Joseph E Persico|author-link1=Colin Powell|editor1-last=Persico|editor1-first=Joseph E|editor1-link=Joseph E. Persico|title=A soldier's way : an autobiography|date=1995|publisher=Hutchinson|isbn=9780091791995|page=126|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m-lCT5seKuEC&pg=PT126|access-date=26 February 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227135140/https://books.google.com.au/books?id=m-lCT5seKuEC&pg=PT126|archive-date=27 February 2018}}

Penelope Plummer married Michael Clarke on 1 January 1970 in Gosford, New South Wales.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43600915 |title=Bride carried one long-stemmed white rose |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=38 |issue=34 |location=Australia |date=20 January 1971 |access-date=26 February 2018 |pages=10–11 |via=National Library of Australia}}

A rose was named "Penelope Plummer" in 1970.{{cite web|title='Penelope Plummer' Rose|url=http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.4738&tab=1|website=www.helpmefind.com|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227135140/http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.4738&tab=1|archive-date=2018-02-27}}