Valerie Holmes

{{short description|British beauty queen}}

{{BLP sources|date=November 2018}}

{{Infobox pageant titleholder

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| title=Miss Enfield 1969
Miss Britain 1969
Miss International 1969

| competitions=Miss Enfield 1969
(Winner)
Miss Britain 1969
(Winner)
{{nowrap|Miss International 1969}}
(Winner)

| birth_place= London, England

| birth_name= Valerie Susan Holmes

| name= Valerie Susan Stillman

| birth_date= November, 1946

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| hair_color = Brown

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Valerie Susan Holmes (born November 1946) is a British model and beauty queen who was the 1969 winner of the Miss International beauty pageant. She was the first delegate from her country to win the competition.{{cite web|title=Pageant Almanac|url=http://www.pageant-almanac.com/miss-international/former-titleholders.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060711184803/http://www.pageant-almanac.com/miss-international/former-titleholders.php|url-status=usurped|archive-date=July 11, 2006}} Retrieved on 11 April 2008.

Valerie was born in November 1946 to Ernest and Phyllis Holmes of Winchmore Hill, a small suburb of London, England. She won the Miss Enfield contest in 1969. This victory paved the way for her to compete and eventually win the title of Miss Britain, and from that on, to take the crown at the Miss International contest of 1969.{{Cite web|url=https://www.alamy.com/sep-09-1969-british-girl-is-miss-international-1969-in-tokyo-miss-image69441887.html|title = Stock Photo - Sep. 09, 1969 - British Girl is Miss International 1969 in Tokyo: Miss Valerie Susan Holmes aged 22 of Britain was chosen Miss International 1969 in the Miss}}

Following her win at the international pageant held in Tokyo, Japan, she toured the globe for a year, ending up back in Japan, in Osaka to crown the winner of the Miss International contest in 1970, Aurora McKenny Pijuan. Holmes moved to the United States, where she eventually married and raised a family.