What is Miss World?
{{Infobox Organization |name = Miss World |image = Miss World 08 winner Ksenia Sukhinova.jpg |image_border = |size = 150px |caption = Miss World 2008 Ksenia Sukhinova |map = |msize = |mcaption = |motto = |formation = 1951 |type = [[Beauty pageant]] |headquarters = [[London]], [[England]] |location = {{GBR}} |membership = |language = [[English language|English]] |leader_title = President |leader_name = [[Julia Morley]] |key_people = [[Eric Morley]] |num_staff = |budget = |website = [http://www.missworld.com/ Official website] }} '''Miss World''' is an international [[beauty pageant]] that started in 1951.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/world_1951.htm |title=Miss World 1951 |publisher=Pageantopolis |accessdate=24 May 2011 |archive-date=11 May 2012 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/67ZZaHxfx?url=http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/World_1951.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/world_1952.htm |title=Miss World 1952 |publisher=Pageantopolis |accessdate=24 May 2011 |archive-date=27 May 2012 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/67xe7CjxO?url=http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/World_1952.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is the oldest surviving major international beauty pageant. The contest was created in the United Kingdom by [[Eric Morley]], and run as part of the Mecca Leisure Group.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/m/tianjin/e/2009-08/28/content_8629097.htm |title=Tianjin Miss World China Pageant comes to a close |work=China Daily |date=28 August 2009 |accessdate=24 May 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090814/world-news/miss-universe-on-august-23 |title=Miss Universe on August 23 |publisher=Timesofmalta.com |accessdate=24 May 2011}}</ref> Since his death in 2000, Morley's wife, [[Julia Morley]], co-chairs the pageant.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pagea