MISS WORLD FIASCO—unrepentant unwed mother & home wrecker wins; gives up crown

PICTURED: Linda Lovegrove … she plans to name Helen as the "other woman" in a divorce action.



27th November 1974
Unmarried mother Helen Morgan quit as Miss World on Tuesday night (26-11-74), after a reign of just four days. Her dramatic decision followed a day of new controversy over her 18-month-old son Richard. The climax was an announcement by nightclub dancer Linda Lovegrove that she planned to name Helen as the "other r woman" in a divorce action. The 22-year-old Miss United Kingdom wept as she renounced the title that earned her 3,000 pounds and the chance of 50,000 pounds in "extras." She said: "This morning I felt on top of the world, but now that world has collapsed around me." Mrs. Lovegrove, 28, said she would see solicitors about the break-up of her marriage to nightclub worker Raymond Lovegrove, 29. She claimed that Helen was responsible. Mr. Lovegrove said that he me Helen when he was a disc jockey in
Wales, three years ago. Helen’s boyfriend Christopher Clode, 26, the father of her child, was a London’s Royal Albert Hall to see her win the title and the 3,000 – which contest organisers Mecca say she will be allowed to keep. She has said that she has no plans to marry Christopher. After the competition, when rivals protested that it was "immoral" for an unmarried mother to be Miss World, Helen replied: "We are living in 1974, not 1914."



PICTURED: Linda Lovegrove … she plans to name Helen as the "other woman" in a divorce action.