Miss World Sweden Miss World Sweden Miss World Sweden is a national Beauty pageant that has selected Sweden's representative to the Miss World pageant. Firstly, Miss Sweden which ran from 1949 to 2003, by the female magazine "VeckoRevyn" and production company "Strix" in partnership with MTG. The competition qualified delegates to the global contest Miss World. As the competition stopped running, it was replaced by separate pageants with various franchises, but lost the franchise in 2003. The pageant is under sponsorship by Studio Fashion Inc and the marketing is made by the women's magazine "Hänt Extra". Sweden has the longest unbroken participation at
Miss Peru send her representative, Mary Núñez, to the Miss Universe Pageant, because she was prevented from participating by the president of the republic, Juan Velasco Alvarado. He considered the contest was the product of American capitalism, and a country with which he did not have good relations. This was the only occasion in which a Miss Peru did not participate in the Miss Universe except for the 1955 and 1974, when no contest was held. Given the refusal of Alvarado, Mary Núñez was sent to Miss World 1973 in London, England. In 1982, Peru became the first South American country to