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Date Posted: Sunday, May 07, 06:43:52am
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fan-man
's message, "Antigone Costanda, our beautiful treasure!" on Saturday, May 06, 09:25:01am
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>Antigone Costanda was the winner of the Miss World
>beauty pageant in 1954, representing Egypt. The
>pageant was held on October 18, 1954 in London,
>England, 16 contestants participated. In addition to
>Arabic she speaks Greek, English, Italian and French
>fluently. Her total points overall in the Miss World
>event were 7.941, ranked 4th. The Greek-Egyptian
>beauty was the first Miss Egypt candidate to win the
>title for Egypt.
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>According to Eric Morely's 1967 book, "The Miss World
>Story", Antigone was positively beaming claimed her
>victory was also for third runner-up status of Marina
>Papaelia, 1953's Miss Egypt. The picture to the left
>shows Antigone at the Nastri d'Argento award in Rome,
>Italy on July 16, 1955.
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>Antigone in RomeThe following year, during the 1955
>Miss World beauty pageant held in London, Antigone did
>not show up to the event because of political
>hostilities between Egypt and Britain over the Suez
>Canal. British actress Eunice Gayson crowned Miss
>Venezuela as the new Miss World.
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>Antigone CostandaPrior to winning Miss World Antigone
>was gaining experience as in the model world, her face
>appearing in numerious publications. Winning Miss
>World further aided her into reaching the top of her
>profession, becoming a successful model in the Middle
>East, France, Italy and Greece. Her career in later
>years moved into interior design. She ran a company
>designing the interior of business buildings.
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