Miss England is hoping Harry Kane and the rest of Thomas Tuchel’s Three Lions can lift the World Cup this summer before she bids to become Miss World
Miss England Grace Richardson proudly sports her St George’s flag as she prepares to back the Three Lions to end 60 years of hurt and bring the World Cup trophy home.
The 21-year-old is gearing up to cheer on Thomas Tuchel’s boys – before representing England herself later this summer hoping to win her own world title at Miss World. The newly-crowned beauty queen has now swapped her tiara, sash and glitzy ball gown for her England football shirt, scarf and St George’s cross.
The university performing arts student hopes she can help inspire Harry Kane’s heroes to bring home the trophy from the tournament in Canada, Mexico and USA – for the first time since Bobby Moore achieved the feat against West Germany back in 1966.
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Grace, of Leicester, said: “Like everyone else, I’ll be supporting England in the World Cup and hoping we do well.
“Then just a few weeks later I’ll be flying out to Vietnam to represent England myself at Miss World – which feels surreal and such an honour.
“After nearly 60 years of hurt hopefully this could be our year.
“Harry Kane has been absolutely on fire, the squad looks stronger than ever and I’ve got a feeling the new manager might just be the one to finally bring football home.
“The whole country will be shouting ‘come on England’ I’m sure.”
After the World Cup, Grace will be representing England a few weeks later in Vietnam for the 75th Anniversary of Miss World.
In November, she was crowned the first openly gay Miss England winner after previously being bullied at school over her sexuality.
Miss England Director Angie Beasley added: “It’s wonderful timing that two huge international events are happening so close together.
“Grace will be proudly flying the flag for England on the Miss World stage while the nation is still hopefully in football fever.”