Miss World 1973
{{Short description|Beauty pageant edition}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}}
{{EngvarB|date=November 2015}}
{{Infobox beauty pageant
| winner = Marjorie Wallace
| represented = United States (dethroned){{cite web | last=Pelling | first=Rowan | title=What's so wrong about being a beauty queen? | website=The Daily Telegraph | date=July 13, 2015 | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11735998/Whats-so-wrong-about-being-a-beauty-queen.html | access-date=January 23, 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1893&dat=20070121&id=AuopAAAAIBAJ&pg=6168,2437055&hl=en|title=The Southeast Missourian|access-date=26 January 2016}}[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19741127&id=rlQdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wVYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7240,5989735&hl=en The Pittsburgh Press]
| date = 23 November 1973
| presenters = {{Hlist|Michael Aspel|David Vine†}}
| venue = Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom
| broadcaster = {{Hlist|BBC}}
| entrants = 54
| placements = 15
| returns = {{Hlist|Colombia|Cyprus|Lebanon|Luxembourg|Peru| South Korea|Sri Lanka}}
| withdrawals = {{Hlist|Costa Rica|Ecuador|India|Liberia|Paraguay|West Germany}}
| before = 1972
| next = 1974
}}
Miss World 1973 was the 23rd edition of the Miss World pageant, held on 23 November 1973 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom. 54 delegates vied for the crown won by Marjorie Wallace of United States. She was crowned by Belinda Green of Australia. Wallace won £7,200 in prize money for the first-place result.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19731124&id=b-MpAAAAIBAJ&pg=2095,3142415&hl=en|title=Daytona Beach Morning Journal|access-date=26 January 2016}}{{Cite news |date=November 24, 1973 |title=First Yank Chosen Miss World |pages=1 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NYFhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nVQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3091%2C2935960 |access-date=May 11, 2022}}
Background
104 days after her reign, Marjorie Wallace, was dethroned from her title. The Miss World 1973 title was not offered to any of the other participants. The Miss World organizers offered 1st runner-up Evangeline Pascual of the Philippines the duties but not the title. However, Pascual turned down the offer because she already have commitments in being an actress in the Philippines at the time.{{Cite web |date=2010-09-11 |title=2010 Miss Universe bets compete in Miss World {{!}} Manila Bulletin |website=Manila Bulletin |url=http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/275926/2010-miss-universe-bets-compete-miss-world |access-date=2024-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100911091509/http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/275926/2010-miss-universe-bets-compete-miss-world |archive-date=11 September 2010 }} Patsy Yuen of Jamaica, who placed 2nd Runner-Up performed some of the duties and responsibilities of Miss World that had already been scheduled, without holding the title.
= Returns, and, withdrawals =
This edition marked the return of Peru, which last competed in 1968, Colombia and Lebanon last competed in 1970 and Cyprus, Luxembourg, South Korea and Sri Lanka (as Ceylon), last competed in 1971.
Costa Rica, Ecuador, India, Liberia, Paraguay and West Germany, withdrew from the competition for unknown reasons.
Results
=Placements=
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| Miss World 1973
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| 1st runner-up
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| 2nd runner-up
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| 3rd runner-up
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| 4th runner-up
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| Top 7
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| Top 15
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Contestants
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- {{flag|Argentina|alt}} – Beatriz Callejón †
- {{flag|Netherlands Antilles|1959|name=Aruba}} – Edwina Diaz
- {{flag|Australia}} – Virginia Radinas
- {{flag|Austria}} – Roswitha Kobald
- {{flag|Bahamas}} – Deborah Louise Isaacs
- {{flag|Belgium}} – Christine Devisch
- {{flag|Bermuda}} – Judy Joy Richards
- {{flag|Botswana}} – Priscilla Molefe
- {{flag|Brazil|1968}} – Florence Gambogi Alvarenga
- {{flag|Canada}} – Deborah Anne Ducharme
- {{flag|Colombia}} – Elsa María Springstube Ramírez
- {{flag|Cyprus}} – Demetra Heraklidou
- {{flag|Dominican Republic|civil}} – Clariza Duarte Garrido
- {{flag|Finland}} – Seija Mäkinen
- {{flag|France}} – Isabelle Nadia Krumacker
- {{flag|Gibraltar|ensign}} – Josephine Rodríguez
- {{flag|Greece|1970}} – Katerina Papadimitriou
- {{flag|Guam}} – Shirley Ann Brennan
- {{flag|Holland}} – Anna Maria Groot
- {{flag|Honduras|1949}} – Belinda Handal
- {{flag|British Hong Kong|name=Hong Kong}} – Judy Yung Chu-Dic
- {{flag|Iceland}} – Nína Breiðfjörd
- {{flag|Ireland}} – Yvonne Costelloe
- {{flag|Israel}} – Chaja Katzir
- {{flag|Italy}} – Marva Bartolucci
- {{flag|Jamaica}} – Patsy Yuen
- {{flag|Japan|1947}} – Keiko Matsunaga
- {{flag|Lebanon}} – Sylva Ohannessian
- {{flag|Luxembourg}} – Giselle Anita Nicole Azzeri
- {{flag|Malaysia}} – Narimah Mohd Yusoff
- {{flag|Malta}} – Carmen Farrugia
- {{flag|Mauritius}} – Daisy Ombrasine
- {{flag|Mexico}} – Roxana Villares Moreno
- {{flag|New Zealand}} – Pamela King
- {{flag|Norway}} – Wenche Steen
- {{flag|Peru}} – Mary Núñez
- {{flag|Philippines|1936}} – Evangeline Pascual{{Cite news|last=Burton-Titular|first=Joyce|date=1 October 2013|title=From Vivien to Megan: The PH in Miss World history|url=https://www.rappler.com/entertainment/pageants/40304-philippines-miss-world-history/|access-date=28 April 2025|website=Rappler|language=en|archive-date=24 July 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724212547/https://onedio.com/haber/hepsi-zirveye-cikti-ancak-hepsi-orada-kalamadi-turkiye-nin-son-25-yildaki-turkiye-guzelleri-simdi-ne-yapiyor-860708|url-status=live}}
- {{flag|Portugal}} – Maria Helene Pereira Martins
- {{flag|Puerto Rico}} – Milagros García
- {{flag|Seychelles|1961}} – June Gouthier
- {{flag|Singapore}} – Debra Josephine de Souza
- {{flag|South Africa|1928}}{{Efn|Competed as Africa South in the pageant}} – Ellen Peters
- {{flag|South Africa|1928}} – Shelley Latham
- {{flag|South Korea}}{{Efn|Competed as Korea in the pageant}} – An Soon-young
- {{flag|Spain|1945}} – Mariona Russell
- {{flag|Sri Lanka}} – Shiranthi Wickremesinghe
- {{flag|Sweden}} – Mercy Nilsson
- {{flag|Switzerland}} – Magda Lepori
- {{flag|Thailand}} – Pornpit Sakornvijit
- {{flag|Turkey}} – Beyhan Kıral{{Cite news|date=4 May 2020|last=Tarihi|first=Güncelleme|title=Güzeller canlı yayında buluştu|trans-title=Beauties met on live broadcast|url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/galeri-1929dan-gunumuze-turkiye-guzelleri-41508916|access-date=29 April 2025|website=Hürriyet|language=tr|archive-date=2 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230102125519/https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/galeri-1929dan-gunumuze-turkiye-guzelleri-41508916|url-status=live}}
- {{flag|United Kingdom}} – Veronica Ann Cross
- {{flag|United States}} – Marjorie Wallace
- {{flag|Venezuela|1954}} – Edicta de los Ángeles García Oporto
- {{flag|Yugoslavia}} – Atina Golubova
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Notes
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= Other notes =
- Marjorie Wallace became the first Miss United States to be crowned Miss World. The United States' representative had previously finished as first runner-up on five occasions, in 1954, 1955, 1956, 1965, and 1969. Wallace would also become the first winner not to complete her reign when she was fired in March 1974, because she had "failed to fulfill the basic requirements of the job".{{cite news | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/4351681/Eight-beauty-queens-who-met-with-controversy.html | work = The Telegraph | title = Eight beauty queens who met with controversy | access-date = 29 April 2014}} The title was never offered to any of the runner-ups. Instead the remaining scheduled duties were handled by third placed Miss Jamaica. Marjorie was never officially replaced by any of the runners up.
References
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Further reading
- {{cite web | title=Miss World Competition Through the Years | website=E! | date=December 12, 2014 | url=http://www.eonline.com/photos/14545/miss-world-competition-through-the-years/443155| access-date=January 23, 2016}}
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