1966 Margareta Arvidsson SWEDEN

Miami Beach, Florida USA

1st runner-up     Charlotta Ostring   FINLAND 2nd runner-up     Cheranand Savetanand                        THAILAND 3rd runner-up     Yasmin Daji   INDIA 4th runner-up     Aviva Israeli   ISRAEL SEMI-FINALISTS Edna Margarita Rudd Lucena   COLOMBIA Gitte Fleinert   DENMARK Janice Carol Whiteman   ENGLAND Marion Heinrich   GERMANY Marge Domen   HOLLAND Siri Gro Nilsson   NORWAY Madeline Hartog Bel   PERU Ma.Clarinda Garces Soriano   PHILIPPINES Paquita Torres Perez   SPAIN Maria Judith Remenyi   USA

Margareta Arvidsson, Miss Sweden,  on the extreme left with other delegates during the 1966 pageant

Margarita was homesick. Minutes after Miss Sweden, Margarita Arvidsson, was crowned Miss Universe, she told the newsmen on hand that she wanted "to go home.I can never be myself or be what I want to be as Miss Universe," she said. "I can’t go nowhere without a chaperone," she cried.   And controversy was still alive and well in the pageant. Five South American contestants, Misses Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay, Venezuela and Brazil complained that they "are the nothings of the contest" and claimed that European girls got preferential treatment wherever they went.  Peru's Madeline Hartog Bel would go on to win the 1967 Miss World title.

Margareta Arvidsson, Miss Sweden,  in national costume

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