Biography of Antonia Balint (a.k.a.: Charlotte Edwards)

This Hungarian beauty queen was disqualified from the Miss Hungary title for posing naked. She was re-awarded her crown after winning a court case against the organizers of the pageant. Balint and second-placed Timea Raba were both disqualified after the 1991 pageant when Hungarian newspapers printed photographs that had previously appeared in the men's magazine Lui and other publications. Erich Reil, who wrote the rules for Miss World, had asked Balint to hand back her prize money. The local organisers, Multimedia, then reclaimed the two contestants' prize money, naming third-placed Orsolya Michna the new Miss Hungary and sent her to the finals in London.

"I felt it was a huge injustice at the time because there was nothing in the contract I signed which said that I'd done anything wrong," said Balint. In fact, she refused to hand over her sceptre and crown and locked them away in her parents' home for six years. Though she was also supposed to receive a Renault Clio, she never saw it. According to the recent court ruling, Multimedia had misled Balint at the time, and she has been awarded damages plus the price of a Renault car, plus interest, estimated at a total of $30,000 -- allowing her to take her crown and sceptre out of cold storage at last.

Full name: Antonia Balint

Born: April 5, 1971

Birthplace: Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary