Veronica Ann Cross, daughter of a Covent Garden opera singer, won the Miss United Kingdom beauty pageant in 1973. At 16 years old, upon leaving school, Cross successfully applied for a job as a photographic model with an agency in London. Soon she was to accept opportunities for television adverts and bit-parts. In December 1972 she entered a Miss England heat in Streatham, which she failed to win. She tried for another heat in London in February and qualified for the final of the Miss England competition and also qualified her to enter the Miss UK pageant. At the Miss World competition, she managed to come sixth, despite suffering from an ovarian cyst. 

January 1st, 1950 in (Age 74)