Miss World 1985

 Miss World 1985

Miss World 1985, the 35th Miss World pageant, was held on 14 November 1985 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom. 78 contestants from all over the world competed for the coveted title. Miss World 1984, Astrid Carolina Herrera of Venezuela, crowned Hólmfríður Karlsdóttir of Iceland as the new Miss World at the end of the event.

Hofi Karlsdottir - Iceland
Blonde Miss Iceland, Holmfriour 'Hofi' Karlsdottir won the 1985 Miss World contest before a cheering audience in Royal Albert Hall, narrowly beating runners-up Miss United Kingdom and Miss USA. Hofi, then a 22-year-old kindergarten school teacher receives the 5,000-pound prize and a work contract worth 25,000 pounds in the competition entered by young women from 78 countries. "I can't believe it really," said Hofi, the first young woman from her country to win the world title. "I'll have to leave my nursery children for a year as well (as her law student boyfriend) and I just hope they'll miss me," she added. Ron Pollard, spokesman for bookmakers' Ladbrokes, said there had been little betting because no British newspaper had published a photograph showing all the contestants. "If they can't see them, they can't bet on them," Pollard said. "It's been the quietest Miss World that anyone of us can remember."