Born in London, she worked as a model, and met Eric Morley, then a director of
Mecca Dancing, at a dance hall in
Leeds; the couple married in 1960. She became chairman of Miss World after her husband died in 2000. As chairman of Miss World, she introduced "Beauty With A Purpose", in 1972, 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 the Priyadarshini Award for her ‘Save the Children’ campaign. In 2016, Morley received the Variety Humanitarian Award. 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. ==References==