‘Mrs World’ returns her crown after Sri Lanka pageant controversy

Caroline Jurie resigns after on-stage fracas in which she pulled the crown off the head of Mrs Sri Lanka pageant winner.

The reigning “Mrs World”, Caroline Jurie, has returned her crown of her own accord weeks after an on-stage fracas in which she pulled the crown off the head of the winner of the Mrs Sri Lanka beauty pageant, organisers said. “Her voluntary resignation decision was made solely by Caroline herself,” Mrs World Inc said in a news release on social media on Wednesday. Jurie relinquished her title earlier this month, while defending her decision to remove the crown from the head of this year’s Mrs Sri Lanka titleholder, Pushpika de Silva, who she claimed was unqualified to take part in the April 4 contest because she was divorced.