Education
Morgan represented Wales in the Mission Universe 1974 pageant, where she finished first runner-up to Amparo Muñoz of Spain.
Morgan represented Wales in the Mission Universe 1974 pageant, where she finished first runner-up to Amparo Muñoz of Spain.
Born in Barry, she worked in a bank. When Muñoz resigned as Mission Universe before the end of her reign, the crown was not offered to Morgan or any other runner-up. Mission World 1974
She had originally been reluctant to enter the Mission Wales competition, and was eventually paid £30 as a last-minute stand-in when another competitor dropped out.
However, she was forced to resign only four days after winning the pageant, upon the media discovering that she was an unwed mother with an 18-month-old son.
The first runner-up, Anneline Kriel of South Africa, succeeded her. The first case was that of Mission World 1973, Marjorie Wallace, who, according to pageant officials, was stripped of the crown for "failing to fulfill the basic requirements of the job" a few months into her reign.
After Mission World
Threatened with being a named party in a divorce – an action which was later dropped – Morgan was allowed to keep her other titles. She resigned from the bank, and undertook a career in modeling, television and films.
After modelling
Morgan married and moved to Surrey in the 1980s, and had two more children, Poppy and Ben.
Morgan became the first winner to resign, and the second (after Marjorie Wallace) not to finish her reign as Mission World. Entering modelling competitions on a part-time basis, she won the Mission Wales and Mission United Kingdom titles in 1974. Winning Mission United Kingdom earned Morgan the right to represent the United Kingdom in Mission World. Morgan became the second Welsh woman and the fourth United Kingdom representative to win the competition in 1974. Although this did not violate any of the competition rules (which stipulated only that entrants must be unmarried), pressure was placed on her by the Mission World Organisation that she should resign to save them from potential embarrassment. Morgan became the first winner to resign, and the second Mission World titleholder not to finish her reign. In 2004, Morgan agreed to judge the 2004 Mission Wales competition in Swansea, the 30th anniversary of her competition win, won by Amy Guy.
