Results
Placements
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| Miss World 1974 |
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| 4th runner-up |
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| Top 7 | |
| Top 15 |
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| Miss World 1974 | |
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| Date | 22 November 1974 |
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| Venue | Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom |
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| Entrants | 58 |
| Placements | 15 |
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| Winner | Helen Morgan [1] (resigned) Anneline Kriel (assumed) [2] South Africa |
Miss World 1974 was the 24th edition of the Miss World pageant, [3] held on 22 November 1974 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom. [4] The event was viewed by an estimated 30 million people, [1] and was a "Wide World Special" on the ABC Television Network. [4]
Helen Morgan of the United Kingdom was crowned the winner at the end of the event by Mrs. Julia Morley, becoming the second Welsh and fourth woman from the United Kingdom to win the title. Although it was known to the organizers at the time that she had a child as a single mother when she has crowned Miss Wales, due to intense pressure and media interest Morgan resigned four days later. The wife of the child's father had given many media interviews in the hours following the contest, creating extremely negative and lurid headlines. Morgan was the first Miss World titleholder to officially resign, and the second not to finish her reign as Miss World, after Marjorie Wallace in 1973.
Morgan had represented Wales in Miss Universe 1974 pageant earlier that year and placed first runner-up to eventual winner Amparo Muñoz of Spain. When Muñoz relinquished her Miss Universe title later that year, Morgan had already been outed as a mother and, therefore, ineligible to succeed Muñoz as Miss Universe. Muñoz was not replaced by any of the other runners-up.
Anneline Kriel of South Africa was crowned the new Miss World after Morgan's resignation. This was the second time that South Africa had won the title of Miss World.
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| Miss World 1974 |
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| 1st runner-up |
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| Top 15 |
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Africa South – Evelyn Peggy Williams
Argentina – Sara Barberi
Aruba – Esther Angeli Luisa Marugg
Australia – Gail Margaret Petith
Austria [4] – Eveline Engleder
Bahamas – Monique Betty Cooper
Barbados – Linda Yvonne Field
Belgium – Anne-Marie Sophie Sikorski
Bermuda – Joyce Ann de Rosa
Botswana – Rosemary Moleti
Brazil – Mariza Sommer
Canada – Sandra Margaret Emily Campbell
Colombia – Luz María Osorio Fernández
Costa Rica – Rose Marie Leprade Coto
Denmark – Jane Moller
Dominican Republic – Giselle Scanlon Grullón
Ecuador – Silvia Aurora Jurado Estrada
Finland – Merja Talvikki Ekman
France – Edna Tepava
West Germany – Sabrina Erlmeier
Gibraltar – Patricia Orfila
Greece – Evgenia Dafni
Guam – Rosemary Pablo Laguna
Guernsey – Gina Elizabeth Ann Atkinson
Holland – Gerarda Sophia Balm
Honduras – Leslie Suez Ramírez
Hong Kong – Judy Denise Anita Dirkin
India – Kiran Dholakia
Ireland – Julie Ann Farnham
Israel – Lea Klain
Italy – Zaira Zoccheddu
Jamaica – Andrea Lyon
Japan – Chikako Shima
Jersey – Christine Marjorie Sangan
South Korea – Shim Kyoung-sook
Lebanon – Gisèle Hachem
Madagascar – Raobelina Harisoa
Malaysia – Shirley Tan
Malta – Mary Louis Elull
Mexico – Guadalupe del Carmen Elorriaga Valdés
New Zealand – Sue Nicholson
Nicaragua – Francis Duarte de León Tapia
Norway – Torill Mariann Larsen
Philippines – Agnes Benisano Rustia
Puerto Rico – Loyda Eunice Valle Blas Machado
Singapore – Valerie Oh Choon Lian South Africa – Anneline Kriel 
Spain – Natividad Rodríguez Fuentes
Sri Lanka – Vinodini Roshanara Jayskera
Sweden – Jill Lindqvist
Switzerland – Astrid Maria Angst
Thailand – Orn-Jir Chaisatra
Tunisia – Zohra Kehlifi
United Kingdom – Helen Elizabeth Morgan [2] 
United States – Terry Ann Browning
Venezuela – Alicia Rivas Serrano
Yugoslavia – Jadranka Banjac
Zambia – Christine MunkombweAnneline Kriel is a South African actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss South Africa 1974 and was later crowned Miss World 1974. She is the second of three South African women to hold the Miss World title after Penelope Coelen in 1958 and before Rolene Strauss in 2014. In South Africa she achieved "icon" status where she became known as a "Princess Diana" figure and also appeared in several local film and television projects such as Kill and Kill Again in 1981. She was also in a high-profile marriage (1980-1985) with the late South African hotelier, Sol Kerzner.
Helen Elizabeth Morgan is a British actress, model, tv Host and beauty queen who won the 1974 Miss Wales, Miss United Kingdom and Miss World pageants. Morgan became the first winner to resign, and the second not to finish her reign as Miss World.
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