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.jpg) Morley atMiss World 2007 | |
| Born | Julia Evelyn Pritchard (1941-10-25)25 October 1941 (age 83) London, England |
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Julia Evelyn MorleyCBE (néePritchard; 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 theMiss World andMister World pageants.[1] She is thewidow of Miss World creator, the lateEric Morley who organized the pageant from its inception in July 1951, until his death in 2000.
Born in London, she worked as a model, and met Eric Morley, then a director ofMecca Dancing, at a dance hall inLeeds; 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 theVariety International Children’s Fund with a Charity Dinner which raised over $400,000 for nutritional, educational and medical projects inHaiti.[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 appointedCommander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the2022 Birthday Honours for charitable and voluntary services to disadvantaged people in the UK and abroad.[8]