Miss World International was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951. After his death in 2000, Morley’s widow, Julia Morley, has co-chaired the pageant.

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. In 2022, Morley was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Birthday Honours for charitable and voluntary services to disadvantaged people in the UK and abroad.

The current Miss World is Karolina Bielawska of Poland who was crowned by Toni-Ann Singh of Jamaica on March 16, 2022 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is the second contestant from Poland to win Miss World.