Mulcahy Conway Associates

The Frog Princess

From ugly ducking to beauty queen, this is the touching true tale of a how a girl from Grimsby reached the stars.

Life didnt hold much promise for ordinary little Angie Beasley. With few jobs around, bland food and cold weather, the best that Angie could hope for was a job at the local Findus factory. Her family didn't have it easy. Her baby brother was a cot death and the tragedy caused her parents to turn to the Jehovah's Witnesses. Their poverty, now combined with an austere belief system, meant no Christmas, no birthdays and little joy. But aged 15, Angie decided that she was destined for bigger things. To the
outrage of her parents, she entered a beauty pageant. And won. She went on to take 23 titles, including Miss Leeds, while travelling the world in the process.

Just as Angie felt that life couldn't be better, she married a man who trapped her in a terrifying cycle of domestic violence. When he eventually dumped her, she had lost all of her money and self-esteem. She was on the bottom rung of the ladder yet again. But Angie picked herself up, turned her talents to event management and grafted her way to becoming Director of Miss England.

Evoking the magical, lost world of the 1970s beauty pageant, Angie's story is a real-life fairytale with heart and humour.