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Catharina Johanna Lodders, now Catharina Evans [1] (born 18 August 1942 in Haarlem) is a Dutch model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 1962. [ 2 ] Prior to the Miss World contest, she was crowned Miss Holland in May 1962.
In the 1958 Miss World pageant, a total of 22 contestants from Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa competed in the finals. Europeans dominated the semi-finals, but Penelope Anne Coelen, an 18-year-old secretary who played piano in the talent competition, was selected for the crown.
Miss World is the oldest existing international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951. [1] [2] Since his death in 2000, Morley's widow, Julia Morley, has co-chaired the pageant.
Originally the Festival Bikini Contest, [2] Miss World was organized by Eric Morley as a mid-century advertisement for swimwear at the Festival of Britain. [3] Håkansson was a photo and fashion model [4] when she was crowned Miss Sweden World in 1951 and subsequently won the London pageant.
Lodders is a Dutch surname. Notable people with the surname include: Catharina Lodders (born 1942), Dutch model; Helma Lodders (born 1968), Dutch politician; Katharina Lodders, German-American cosmochemist; Robin Lodders (born 1994), German basketball player
She currently lives with her second husband, publisher Brian Cowan. She also played the Cadbury Flake girl [3] in the 1980s Austrian Skiing advert directed by Ridley Scott. [citation needed] Rueber-Staier now produces metalwork sculptures; some were exhibited during Hertfordshire Visual Arts Forum's "open studios 2008".
After relinquishing the Miss World title, Sidney had many acting roles on TV, 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.
Anneline Kriel (born 28 July 1955) 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.