Julia Morley


Julia Evelyn Morley is a British businesswoman, charity worker and former model. She is the chairman of the Miss World Organization which runs the annual Miss World and biennial Mister World competition. She is the widow of Miss World founder Eric Morley, who organised from the first pageant in 1951 until his death in 2000.

Life and career

Born Julia Pritchard in London, she worked as a model, and met Eric Morley, then a director of Mecca Dancing, at a dance hall in Leeds; the couple married in 1960. She became chairman of Miss World after her husband died in 2000.
As chairman of Miss World, she introduced "Beauty With A Purpose", which raises money in support of sick and disadvantaged children. In 2009, Morley used the opening of the Miss World Festival to launch the Variety International Children’s Fund with a Charity Dinner which raised over $400,000 for nutritional, educational and medical projects in Haiti.
She was conferred with the Priyadarshini Award for her ‘Save the Children’ campaign. In 2016, Morley received the Variety Humanitarian Award.