Miss World 1952
Miss World 1952, the second annual Miss World pageant, was held on November 14, 1952 at the Lyceum Theatre, London, United Kingdom. 11 contestants competed for the Miss World title. The winner was May Louise Flodin, who represented Sweden. She became the second Swede to win Miss World, after Kiki Håkansson, who won the year before.
Results
| Final Results |
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| Miss World 1952 |
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| 1st Runner-up |
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| 2nd Runner-up |
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| 3rd Runner-up |
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| 4th Runner-up |
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Contestants
Disqualified contestants
- Belgium - Anne-Marie Pauwels (became disqualified because she refused to be parted from her boyfriend during the contest when he accompanied her to England)
Notes
- Doreen Dawne (Great Britain) also competed in Miss World 1951, where she placed as the 2nd Runner-up. This year she got one more chance to win the Miss World crown for Great Britain, but she failed yet again and did not place at all.
- 6 of the contestants of this year's Miss World pageant; Anne-Marie Pauwels (Belgium), Eeva Hellas (Finland), Nicole Drouin (France), Vera Marks (Germany), Eithne Dunne (Ireland) and Sylvia Müller (Switzerland) also competed in Miss Europe 1952, held in Naples, Italy, on August 19. All of them failed to place, except from Nicole Drouin (France), who became the 1st Runner-up.
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