Miss World In The United Kingdom 1961: Rosemarie Frankland
Miss World 1961 was the eleventh anniversary of the Miss World pageant, held on 9 November 1961 at the Lyceum Ballroom in London, United Kingdom. 37 candidates competed for the Miss World. The winner was Rosemarie Frankland, representing the United Kingdom. Contestants from thirty-seven countries and territories were selected to participate in the competition.
Two contestants were appointed to represent their countries/territories after being runners-up in their national competitions or were selected through a casting process. Miss France 1961, Luce Auger, was initially supposed to represent her country. However, she was dethroned due to already having a child. Auger was replaced by her first runner-up, Michèle Wargnier. Additionally, the third runner-up of Miss Holland 1961, Rita van Zuiden, was appointed to represent Holland because Miss Holland 1961, Anne Marie Brink, had already participated in another international beauty pageant, and her runners-up, Gita Kamman and Stanny van Baer, did not participate.
This edition marked the debut of the Republic of China and Suriname. And the return of Austria, Ceylon, New Zealand, and Venezuela. Ceylon, which last competed in 1955, New Zealand in 1956, Venezuela in 1958, and Austria in 1959. Australia, Burma, French Polynesia, Canada, Jordan, Kenya, Norway, and Tanganyika withdrew from the competition due to their national organizations failed to hold a national competition or select a contestant. Chriss Leon of Jamaica was originally supposed to participate. However, her boyfriend did not allow her to participate. Chriss Leon participated in Miss World 1962 instead, and she eventually made it into the top 15.
Several changes were implemented in this edition. The number of semi-finalists was reduced to fifteen from eighteen in the previous edition. The fifteen semi-finalists were selected through a preliminary competition held on the day of the final event, which consisted of a swimsuit and evening gown competition. The fifteen semi-finalists were interviewed by Peter West, and from them, seven finalists were chosen to proceed to the final interview.
Rosemarie Frankland (1 February 1943 – 2 December 2000) was a Welsh actress, model, and beauty queen who won Miss World 1961, having previously finished as first runner-up at Miss Universe 1961. Born in Rhosllannerchrugog, Wrexham, north-east Wales, in 1943, Frankland moved to Lancashire, England, as a child. She took part in many beauty pageants and won the title of Miss Wales and, later in 1961 in London, she became (as Miss United Kingdom) the first British woman and the seventh European (Sweden won the two first contests, France won in 1953, Germany three years later, Finland in 1957 and the Netherlands in 1959) to win the Miss World competition. She was also the first runner-up at Miss Universe 1961.
Together with Gina Swainson, who won the Miss World title as Miss Bermuda in 1979, Frankland is one of the two women who came closest to winning both Miss Universe and Miss World, having been second at Miss Universe before winning Miss World. Helen Morgan, who was also Miss Wales and Miss United Kingdom, achieved the same feat, but she resigned the Miss World title four days after being crowned.
When Bob Hope crowned her as Miss World, he commented that she was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. As part of her tenure as Miss World, she joined Hope at a USO concert in Alaska and reportedly had an affair with the comedian, lasting many years, later becoming his personal assistant. After Miss World, Frankland embarked on a short-lived acting career. Her most substantial (and last) role was in the 1965 film, I’ll Take Sweden, starring Bob Hope. In 1970, she married the Grass Roots singer/guitarist, Warren Entner, and went to live in Los Angeles. In 1976, she gave birth to their only child together, a daughter. The couple divorced in 1981.
According to reports, Frankland died from a drug overdose in December 2000 in Marina del Rey, California, having had depression. Her ashes were flown back to Wales and were buried at Rhosllannerchrugog Cemetery in February 2001.
Miss World In the Netherlands 1962: Catharina Lodders
Miss World 1962 was the 12th edition Miss World pageant, held at the Lyceum Ballroom, London, United Kingdom, on 8 November 1962. The winner was Catharina Lodders of Holland. She was crowned Miss World 1961, Rosemarie Frankland of the United Kingdom. Lodders was the second woman from Holland to win the Miss World title after Corine Rottschäfer in 1959. This edition marked the return of Canada, Jamaica, Jordan, and Portugal.
Jamaica and Portugal, which last competed in 1959, and Canada and Jordan last competed in 1960. And the withdrawal of Bolivia, Ceylon, Lebanon, Madagascar, Nicaragua, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Suriname, and Turkey, withdrew from the competition after their respective organizations failed to appoint a delegate, hold a national competition. Miss Turkey 1962, Zeynep Ziya, withdrew from the competition for undisclosed reasons.
The performances of Miss World 1962 contestants were evaluated by a panel of judges, Lord John Jacob Astor — Anglo-American journalist and owner of The Times of London, Grace Fields — British actress, singer and comedian, Leslie McDonnell — Scottish writer (who replaced businessman Billy Butlin at the last minute), Bob Hope — American actor and comedian, Charles Eade — journalist and member of the Council of the Commonwealth Press Union, Lady Margaret Simons-Kimberley, of the British High Society.
Robert John Graham Boothby, Baron Boothby — British conservative politician, Jenifer Unite-Armstrong-Jones — wife of Mayor Ronald Armstrong-Jones, Richard Todd — Irish-born British film actor.
Catharina Johanna Lodders, now Catharina Evans (born 18 August 1942 in Haarlem), is a Dutch model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 1962. Before the Miss World contest, she was crowned Miss Holland in May 1962. Winning Miss Holland would therefore give her a chance to be crowned Miss International 1962 in Long Beach, California, and to succeed compatriot Stam van Baer. Lodders placed 3rd Runner-Up to eventual winner Tania Verstak of Australia. She was then also crowned Miss Benelux, followed by Miss World later that year. She became the second woman (after Corine Rottschafer in 1959) from the Netherlands to win the title.
The pageant was held in London. Upon winning the contest, she was quoted as saying, “I don’t think I’m the most beautiful girl in the world – I am the most beautiful girl here.”On 12 December 1963, as a 21-year-old Dutch model and former beauty queen from Haarlem, the Netherlands, Lodders accepted the marriage proposal of 22-year-old American singer, songwriter, and dancer Chubby Checker. Checker said he met Lodders in Manila the prior January. (Checker’s song “Loddy Lo”, a No. 13 hit in late 1963, was written about her.) They married on 12 April 1964 at Temple Lutheran Church in Pennsauken, New Jersey. They later raised their children in Paoli, Pennsylvania. Their first child, Bianca Johanna Evans, was born in Philadelphia on 8 December 1966.
Miss World In Jamaica 1963: Carole Joan Crawford
Miss World 1963 was the 13th edition of the Miss World pageant, held on 7 November 1963 at the Lyceum Ballroom in London, United Kingdom. The winner was Carole Crawford of Jamaica. She was crowned Miss World 1962, Catharina Lodders of Holland.
This edition marked the debut of Chile, Colombia, Liberia, Malaysia, and Nigeria. And the return of Bolivia, Ceylon, Mexico, Peru, Suriname, Tunisia, and Turkey. Mexico, which last competed in 1951, Tunisia last competed in 1957, Peru last competed in 1959, Bolivia, Ceylon, Suriname, and Turkey competed in 1961. Also, Ecuador, India, Italy, the Republic of China, and Uruguay withdrew from the competition after their respective organizations failed to appoint a delegate, hold a national competition.
Carole Joan Crawford (13 February 1943 – 18 December 2024) was a Jamaican of Afro-European heritage, a model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 1963. She was also the first winning delegate from both Jamaica and the Caribbean to have won Miss World. At the time of her victory, she was 20 years old and stood at a height of only 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m), which was short by Miss World standards at the time.
During the beauty competition, held in London, Crawford wore a specially designed swimsuit with a high neckline to appear taller. Her return to Jamaica, after her historic win in London, sparked a huge celebration: “The reception when I returned was simply fantastic. The airport was filled with people welcoming me. The Government had issued millions of commemorative stamps with my picture in my swimsuit on them. There were receptions with Sir Alexander Bustamante and Governor General Sir Clifford Campbell and his wife.
I was presented with the gold key to the city of Kingston.” In honor of her winning the Miss World title, the Jamaica Post issued a series of stamps imprinted with an image of Crawford wearing a swimsuit. Later, Crawford resided in Canada and was known as Carole Joan Crawford-Merkens. She died on 18 December 2024, at the age of 81.
Miss World In The United Kingdom 1964: Ann Sidney
Miss World is the oldest existing international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951. Since he died in 2000, Morley’s widow, Julia Morley, has co-chaired the pageant. Along with Miss Universe, Miss International, and Miss Earth, it is one of the Big Four beauty pageants. The current Miss World is Suchata Chuangsri of Thailand, who was crowned on 31 May 2025 in Hyderabad, India.
In 1951, Eric Morley organised a bikini contest as part of the Festival of Britain celebrations that he called the Festival Bikini Contest. The event was popular with the press, which dubbed it “Miss World”. The swimsuit competition was intended as a promotion for the bikini, which had only recently been introduced to the market and was still widely regarded as immodest. When the 1951 Miss World pageant winner, Kerstin “Kiki” Hakansson from Sweden, was crowned in a bikini, it added to the controversy. The pageant was originally planned as a Pageant for the Festival of Britain, but Morley decided to make the Miss World pageant annual.
He registered the “Miss World” name as a trademark, and all future pageants were held under that name. But because of the controversy arising from Håkansson’s crowning in a bikini, countries with religious traditions threatened not to send delegates to future events, and the bikini was condemned by the Pope. Objection to the bikini led to its replacement in all future pageants with more modest swimwear, and from 1976, swimsuits were replaced by evening gowns for the crowning. Håkansson remains the only Miss World crowned in a bikini. In Miss World 2013, all participants wore a one-piece swimsuit plus a traditional sarong below the waist as a compromise with local culture.
Ann Sidney (born 27 March 1944) is a British actress, television host, and beauty queen who won the 1964 Miss World contest representing the United Kingdom. Sidney moved to Poole when very young. She went to Martin Road School in Parkstone and then Martin Kemp-Welch secondary school, which later became St Aldhelm’s Academy, leaving school at fifteen. She initially took an apprenticeship in hairdressing, working in salons in Bournemouth, but then decided that she would rather be a model. Sidney became the second woman from her country to win the title, after Rosemarie Frankland in 1961. The pageant was held in London on 12 November 1964.
It was watched on television by a reported 27.2 million people in the UK alone. During her reign as Miss World, she travelled around the world five times and joined Bob Hope on his USO tour of Asia. After relinquishing the Miss World title, Sidney had many television acting roles, including The Avengers and Are You Being Served?, and in films, including the spy thriller Sebastian (1968) with Dirk Bogarde and Susannah York, and the Donald Cammell/Nicolas Roeg film Performance (1970) with James Fox and Mick Jagger, as well as forming a touring cabaret act.
In 1967, she appeared in the long-running West End farce Not Now, Darling opposite Donald Sinden and Bernard Cribbins.Sidney has appeared in numerous stage musicals, such as Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, and as Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music. She has also appeared in several Christmas pantomimes in the UK, such as Prince Charming in Cinderella with Brian Conley and as Dick in Dick Whittington with Les Dawson.
She also spent six years as a lead singer at the MGM Grand Las Vegas. In December 1970, Sidney married actor Rod McLennan and moved to Australia. She featured in several Australian television programs, including the comedy series Birds In The Bush (1972), the war drama Spyforce later co-hosted an Australian version of the game show, The Better Sex (1978). Both before and during her reign as Miss World, Sidney was dating Bruce Forsyth, who at the time was married to Penny Calvert. In December 1970, Sidney married actor Rod McLennan and moved to Australia. The couple divorced in 1972. In 2005, Sidney married her fifth husband, the West End producer Duncan Weldon. He died in 2019.
Miss World In The United Kingdom 1965: Lesley Langley
Miss World 1965 was the 15th edition of the Miss World pageant, held on 19 November 1965 at the Lyceum Ballroom in London, England, United Kingdom. The winner was Lesley Langley of the United Kingdom. She was crowned Miss World 1964, Ann Sidney of the United Kingdom.
The UK became the second country to win the contest two years in succession. The first country to achieve this was Sweden, which won in 1951 and 1952. Former British winner, Rosemarie Frankland (Miss World 1961), performed a dance routine alongside Lionel Blair as part of the show’s cabaret. This edition marked the debut of Costa Rica, the Gambia, Malta, Rhodesia, and Syria.
And the return of Australia and French Polynesia, which last competed in 1960, and Bolivia, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Malaysia, and Peru in 1963. Aruba, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Portugal, Spain, and the Republic of China withdrew from the competition. Zerrin Arbaş of Turkey withdrew from the competition for undisclosed reasons.
Lesley Doreen Langley (born 26 March 1944 in Weymouth, Dorset, with the name Lesley Hill, which she changed to Leslie Langley to make it more artistic) is a British actress, model, and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 1965. She was previously crowned Miss United Kingdom 1965. She became the third woman from her country to win the title, and the second Miss United Kingdom in a row, thus making the United Kingdom the second country to have back-to-back winners. Sweden was the first, winning the inaugural pageant in 1951 and the second pageant in 1952.
Langley attended the Royal Merchant Navy School—now known as Reddam House, Berkshire—in the 1950s.In the mid-1960s, she played a small part as a member of an all-female team of pilots in the James Bond film Goldfinger, as well as a Thal in the Doctor Who serial The Daleks. She also became the front cover in 1967 on Weymouth’s Official Holiday Guide, with photos inside. During her tenure, Langley met and married jazz organist Alan Haven—known for his collaborations with John Barry in the James Bond films From Russia with Love and Goldfinger—and they had one daughter named Chloë. They divorced, and Lesley later worked as a dental practice assistant.
Miss World In India 1966: Reita Faria
Miss World is the oldest existing international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951. Since he died in 2000, Morley’s widow, Julia Morley, has co-chaired the pageant. Along with Miss Universe, Miss International, and Miss Earth, it is one of the Big Four beauty pageants.
The current Miss World is Suchata Chuangsri of Thailand, who was crowned on 31 May 2025 in Hyderabad, India. In 1951, Eric Morley organised a bikini contest as part of the Festival of Britain celebrations that he called the Festival Bikini Contest.
The event was popular with the press, which dubbed it “Miss World”. The swimsuit competition was intended as a promotion for the bikini, which had only recently been introduced to the market and was still widely regarded as immodest. When the 1951 Miss World pageant winner, Kerstin “Kiki” Hakansson from Sweden, was crowned in a bikini, it added to the controversy.
The pageant was originally planned as a Pageant for the Festival of Britain, but Morley decided to make the Miss World pageant annual. He registered the “Miss World” name as a trademark, and all future pageants were held under that name. But because of the controversy arising from Håkansson’s crowning in a bikini, countries with religious traditions threatened not to send delegates to future events, and the bikini was condemned by the Pope.
Objection to the bikini led to its replacement in all future pageants with more modest swimwear, and from 1976, swimsuits were replaced by evening gowns for the crowning. Håkansson remains the only Miss World crowned in a bikini. In Miss World 2013, all participants wore a one-piece swimsuit plus a traditional sarong below the waist as a compromise with local culture.
Reita Faria Powell, born on 23 August 1943, is an Indian physician, former model, and the winner of the Miss World 1966 pageant. She is the first Miss World winner to be qualified as a medical doctor. Reita Faria was born in the Matunga locality of Mumbai (then British India’s Bombay) on 23 August 1943. Her parents were Goan Catholics; her father, John, was from the village of Tivim, and his mother, Antoinette, was from Santa Cruz, Goa, both then part of Portuguese Goa.
Faria was the couple’s second daughter after their eldest, Philomena. The family was middle-class, with her father working in a mineral water factory and her mother running a beauty salon. Growing up, Faria, with an adult height of 5 feet 8 inches, was unusually tall for an Indian girl and was made fun of by schoolboys who nicknamed her ‘mommy long legs’. Nevertheless, Faria used her tall and lean build to her advantage in sports, playing ‘everything from throwball, netball and badminton’.
Her first newspaper headlines were for scoring hat-tricks in hockey. Having been born in Bombay, Faria participated in the Miss Bombay contest, which she won. She subsequently won the Eve’s Weekly Miss India contest in 1966 (not to be confused with the Femina Miss India, won by Yasmin Daji in 1966). This made her eligible to represent India at Miss World 1966. During the Miss World 1966 contest, she won the sub-titles ‘Best in Swimsuit’ and ‘Best in Eveningwear’ for wearing a saree. She eventually went on to win the Miss World 1966 crown at the climax of the event, beating 51 competing delegates from other countries.
Faria was a judge at Femina Miss India in 1998 and has come back to judge the Miss World competition on a few occasions. She was a judge along with Demis Roussos at the Miss World final of 1976 held in London, where Cindy Breakspear was crowned Miss World. After her one-year tenure as Miss World, she began receiving various offers to act in films. Faria refused lucrative modelling and acting contracts and instead concentrated on medical studies.
She was a student at the Grant Medical College & Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals, where she completed her M.B.B.S. degree. Thereafter, she went on to study at King’s College Hospital, London. She married her mentor, David Powell, in 1971, and in 1973, the couple shifted to Dublin, Ireland, where she started her medical practice. Faria lives in Dublin, Ireland, with her husband, endocrinologist David Powell, whom she married in 1971. She has two daughters.
Miss World In Peru 1967: Madeleine Hartog-Bel
Miss World USA 1967 was the 6th edition of the Miss World USA pageant, and it was held at the Baltimore Civic Center in Baltimore, Maryland, and was won by Pamela Valari Pall of California. She was crowned by outgoing titleholder, Denice Estelle Blair of Utah. Pall went on to represent the United States at the Miss World 1967 Pageant in London later that year. She finished in the Top 15 at Miss World. This year was also significant as the name of the pageant was again changed, with the new name being Miss World USA. The pageant would continue being called Miss World USA until 1978.
Madeleine Hartog-Bel Houghton, born on June 12, 1947, is a Peruvian model and beauty queen who won the 1967 Miss World contest, representing Peru. After making it to the semi-finals of the Miss Universe pageant in 1966, she went on to win the Miss World title in London, UK, the following year. After Miss World, she lived in Paris, France, for many years, and now she resides on a South Florida island. She is married and has a daughter. In 1967, she appeared in Bob Hope’s Christmas special, entertaining the troops in Vietnam.
Miss World In Australia 1968: Penelope Plummer
Miss World USA 1968 was the 7th edition of the Miss World USA pageant, and it was held in San Diego, California, and was won by Johnine Leigh Avery of Washington. She was crowned by outgoing titleholder, Pamela Valari Pall of California. Avery went on to represent the United States at the Miss World 1968 Pageant in London later that year. She did not place at Miss World. This edition was also the last edition where cities were represented. From 1969 onward, delegates representing cities have to compete in and win state pageants first before competing at Miss World USA.
Penelope Plummer (born 26 October 1949) is an Australian actress, model, and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 1968. The then 18-year-old librarian from Kempsey, New South Wales, became the first contestant from her country to win the title.
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. Penelope Plummer married Michael Clarke on 1 January 1970 in Gosford, New South Wales. A rose was named “Penelope Plummer” in 1970.
Miss World In Austria 1969: Eva Rueber-Staier
Miss World 1969 was the 19th edition of the Miss World pageant, held for the first time at the Royal Albert Hall on 27 November 1969, broadcast for the first time in colour by the BBC. 50 delegates vied for the crown won by Eva Rueber-Staier of Austria.
She was crowned by actor Omar Sharif, not by Miss World 1968 winner Penelope Plummer of Australia. This edition marked the debut of Seychelles. And the return of Paraguay, which last competed in 1959, and Czechoslovakia, The Gambia, Iceland, and Lebanon last competed in 1967. Ceylon, Ghana, Italy, Kenya, Morocco, Peru, Switzerland, Thailand, and Uganda withdrew from the competition for unknown reasons.
Eva Rueber-Staier (born 20 February 1951) is an Austrian actress, television host, model, and beauty queen who won Miss World 1969. Rueber-Staier was born on 20 February 1951 in Bruck an der Mur, Styria. She won the title of Miss Austria and participated in the Miss Universe 1969 contest, in which she was a top 15 semi-finalist. She also went on to win the Miss World 1969 pageant. During her tenure, she starred in the Bob Hope USO tour in South Vietnam. Her acting career contains a recurring James Bond credit: she played General Gogol’s assistant Rublevitch in the films The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only, and Octopussy.
She also has a minor role in ‘’Carry On Dick’’, one of the later films in the Carry On film series. Eva Rueber Staier married British film director Ronald Fouracre at the Caxton Hall register office on 2 January 1973. They were married until her husband’s death on 2 July 1983.
She has lived in an Elizabethan Grade II listed house in Pinner since 1984 and moved there when she was expecting her first and only child, Ronald’s son Alexander Fouracre, who lives in Willesden Green and works as a cameraman. She currently lives with her second husband, publisher Brian Cowan. She also played the Cadbury Flake girl in the 1980s Austrian Skiing advert directed by Ridley Scott. Rueber-Staier now produces metalwork sculptures; some were exhibited during Hertfordshire Visual Arts Forum’s “Open Studios 2008”
Miss World in Grenada 1970: Jennifer Hosten
Miss World 1970 was the 20th anniversary of the Miss World pageant, held on 20 November 1970 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom. Jennifer Hosten from Grenada won the crown of Miss World 1970. Although Miss World 1969, Eva Rueber-Staier of Austria, was present and took part in a dance routine before the announcement of the winner, the new Miss World was crowned by Bob Hope.
The event was marked by controversy in the days beforehand, during the contest itself, and afterwards.58 contestants competed for the Miss World title. This edition saw South Africa send two contestants to Miss World 1970 due to racial segregation in the country: a white contestant represented ‘South Africa,’ while a black contestant competed under the title ‘Africa South.’This edition marked the debut of Grenada and Mauritius.
Also, the return of Hong Kong and Puerto Rico, which last competed in 1959, Spain last competed in 1964, Malaysia last competed in 1966, Portugal last competed in 1967, and Ceylon, Italy, Switzerland, and Thailand last competed in 1968. Chile, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, and Paraguay withdrew from the competition for unknown reasons. Jennifer Hosten (born 31 October 1947) is a Grenadian radio announcer, development worker, diplomat, author, model, and beauty queen who won the Miss World 1970 contest, representing Grenada.
She became the first black woman and the first woman from her country to win the title. The whole contest had been controversial even before the result had been announced. Afterwards, allegations were made about the influence of the Prime Minister of Grenada, who was on the judging panel.
She was born in St. George’s, Grenada. She was 23 when she won the Miss World contest in November 1970, and so the more likely of the two dates of birth that are reported is 31 October 1947. She studied in London and then worked for the BBC’s Caribbean radio service before becoming a flight attendant. The 1970 contest was held in London, United Kingdom. It began with a row because the organisers had allowed two entries from South Africa, one black, one white.
Then, during the evening, there were protests by women’s liberation activists, and flour was thrown. The comedian, Bob Hope, was also heckled. Even greater controversy then followed after the result was announced. Jennifer Hosten won, becoming the first black woman to win Miss World, and the black contestant from South Africa was placed second. The BBC and newspapers received numerous protests about the result, and accusations of racism were made by all sides. Four of the nine judges had given first-place votes to Miss Sweden, while Miss Grenada received only two firsts, but received the most overall points.
Miss Sweden, who was favoured to win, finished fourth. Furthermore, the Premier of Grenada, Eric Gairy, was on the judging panel. Although there were judges from several other countries who also took part in the contest, there were many accusations that the contest had been rigged. Some of the audience gathered in the street outside Royal Albert Hall after the contest and chanted “Swe-den, Swe-den”. Four days later, the organising director, Julia Morley, resigned because of the intense pressure from the newspapers. Years later, Miss Sweden, Marjorie Christel Johansson, was reported as saying that she had been cheated out of the title.
Julia Morley’s husband, Eric Morley, was the chairman of the company that owned the Miss World franchise. To disprove the accusations, Eric Morley put the judging panel’s ballot cards on view and described the complex “majority vote system”. These cards showed that Hosten had more place markings in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th positions over Miss Sweden and the other five finalists. Julia Morley then resumed her job.
Hosten joined Bob Hope on his annual tour to U.S. forces overseas and made numerous other personal appearances all over the world with quiet dignity despite the controversy surrounding her victory. In 1971, a Grenadian 15-cent postage stamp was issued to commemorate her victory. Hosten then worked with Air Canada in customer relations and married David Craig, an IT Manager with IBM. They lived in Bermuda until 1973, when they moved to Ontario, Canada.
Hosten earned a Master of Arts in Political Science and International Relations from Carleton University, Ottawa. She has two children, a daughter, Sophia Craig, and a son, Beau Craig. Jennifer Hosten Craig was High Commissioner to Canada from Grenada from 1978 to 1981. In 1998, she served as Technical Adviser on Trade to the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) while living on the island of Saint Lucia. More recently, she worked as a Canadian diplomat (Aid Division) at the Canadian High Commission in Dhaka, Bangladesh, before returning to the Caribbean.
In 1992, she published an academic study, The Effect of a North American Free Trade Agreement on the Commonwealth Caribbean. Hosten opened Jenny’s Place, beachfront studio apartments on Grand Anse Beach in Grenada, in August 2005. In late 2006, Hosten was appointed the National Director of the Miss Grenada World Contest. The event took place on 31 March 2007, and chose only as the third Grenadian woman in history to compete at the Miss World finals.
Her autobiography, Beyond Miss World, was published in 2008. In 2011, Hosten graduated from Yorkville University, New Brunswick, Canada, with a master’s degree in Counselling (Psychology). She currently works as a registered psychotherapist in Oakville, Ontario. She has five grandchildren. Jennifer is portrayed by Gugu Mbatha-Raw in the 2020 British-French comedy-drama Misbehaviour about the 1970 Miss World competition.