Anneline Kriel won the 1974Miss World contest, representing South Africa, after U.K.'s Helen Morgan had resigned only four after days after her victory. She became the second woman from her country to win the title. The pageant was held in London, United Kingdom. 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... The Miss World pageant (not to be confused with Miss Universe) is an international beauty pageant founded in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951. ... Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the most populous city in the European Union, with an estimated population on 1 January 2005 of 7,421,328 and a metropolitan area population of between 12 and 14 million. ...
The type of consistent media fascination surrounding AnnelineKriel during the 1980s was, although a universal phenomenon, comparable for example to the British hero-worshipping of Princess Diana, uniquely South African in its forms and practices and in the adulation and vervour with which it inspired in the average South African.
Anneline provided a soap-opera, a quintessentially South African saga through which voyeuristic viewers vicariously lived and felt.
Anneline is painted in a manner which celebrate her physical attributes-that for which she is commonly revered.
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