{{Short description|British beauty pageant organizer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Julia Morley | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|size=100%}} | image = Julia Morley (2007).jpg | imagesize = | caption = Morley at [[Miss World 2007]] | birth_name = Julia Evelyn Pritchard | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1939|10|25|df=y}} | birth_place = [[London]], England | occupation = *Chairwoman of the Miss World Organization *President of Variety International 2009–2011 | spouse = {{marriage|[[Eric Morley]]|1960|2000|reason=died}} | children = 5 }}
'''Julia Evelyn Morley''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE}} (née '''Pritchard'''; born 25 October 1939) is an English businesswoman, charity worker and former model. She is the chairwoman and CEO of the Miss World Organization, which organizes the [[Miss World]] and [[Mister World]] pageants.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mister World is back!|url=http://www.mrworld.tv/shownews/Mr-World-is-back!/273.html#.VzSlr9R94UQ}}</ref> She is the [[widow]] of Miss World creator, the late [[Eric Morley]] who organized the pageant from its inception in July 1951, until his death in 2000.
==Life and career==
Born in London, she worked as a model, and met Eric Morley, then a director of [[The Rank Group Plc|Mecca Dancing]], at a dance hall in [[Leeds]]; the couple married in 1960.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1373861/Eric-Morley.html "Obituary: Eric Morley", ''The Telegraph'', 10 November 2000]. Retrieved 6 October 2013</ref> She became chairman of Miss World after her husband died in 2000.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/09/24/miss-world-2013-empowering-women-say-julia-morley_n_3984148.html "Miss World 2013: "Contest Empowers Women And Gives Them A Voice" Says Chair Julia Morley", ''Huffington Post'', 28 September 2013]. Retrieved 6 October 2013</ref>
As chairman of Miss World, she introduced "Beauty With A Purpose", in 1972, which raises money in support of sick and disadvantaged children.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://talkvietnam.com/2012/10/gem-of-a-painting-top-seller-at-miss-world-charity-auction/#.UZItEKIp_Pw |title=Miss World charity auction |work=talkvietnam.com |date=26 Oct 2012 |access-date=14 May 2013 |archive-date=9 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015908/http://www.talkvietnam.com/2012/10/gem-of-a-painting-top-seller-at-miss-world-charity-auction/#.UZItEKIp_Pw |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2009, Morley used the opening of the Miss World Festival to launch the [[Variety, the Children's Charity|Variety]] International Children’s Fund with a Charity Dinner which raised over $400,000 for nutritional, educational and medical projects in [[Haiti]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beautywithapurpose.com/index.php/en/news/85-miss-world-2009-charity-dinner |title=Miss World 2009 Charity Dinner |work=Beauty With A Purpose|date=9 Nov 2009 |access-date=14 May 2013}}</ref> She was conferred the Priyadarshini Award for her ‘Save the Children’ campaign.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Priyanka-Chopra-and-Julia-Morley-honoured-with-Priyadarshni-Academys-Global-Awards-2014-in-Mumbai/articleshow/43005115.cms|title=Chopra and Julia Morley honoured with Priyadarshni Academy's Global Awards 2014 inUmbai|work=Times of India|date=21 September 2014|first=Krutika|last=Behrawala}}</ref> In 2016, Morley received the Variety Humanitarian Award.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://m.beautypageants.in/miss-world/Miss-World-CEO-Julia-Morley-felicitated-with-Humanitarian-Award/eventshow/52062195.cms|title=Miss World CEO Julia Morley felicitated with Humanitarian Award|work=Indiatimes|date=1 May 2016|access-date=11 December 2018}}</ref>
Morley was appointed [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the [[2022 Birthday Honours]] for charitable and voluntary services to disadvantaged people in the UK and abroad.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=63714|supp=y|page=B10|date=1 June 2022}}</ref>
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