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29 March 2024

Miss England: The medical student proving beauties have brains

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By Lifestyle Correspondent

Who wouldn't like to swallow a bitter pill if the doctor is as beautiful or as clever as Miss Cambridgeshire Carina Tyrrell?

And more so if she is passionately seeking higher office – Miss England next and then Miss World.

Blessed with both beauty and brains, Tyrell is in her fifth year of medical studies at Cambridge University.

She is a long way from the ‘pretty but dumb’ image that so often attaches itself to beauty queens.

Recently, Carina Tyrrell was crowned Miss Cambridgeshire, meaning she will be representing the county at the Miss England competition.

Tall, slender and with long, glossy, dark hair, Carina is reminiscent of the Duchess of Cambridge.

The 24-year-old told Cambridge News her "heart stopped" when she was announced as the winner of the regional rounds. She beat 11 others to the title, with the judges saying the competition was one of the closest they had ever seen.

The contestants during the Miss Cambridgeshire pageant were required to fundraise, take part in an interview and to model sportswear, ecowear and eveningwear in a glittering ceremony.

Tyrell is currently in her fifth year of medicine at the university's Murray Edwards College and is also president of the Global Health Society - which is working to help the homeless.

Carina is the first student doctor to reach the final and has a great chance of taking the crown in Torquay in June.

Carina has dreamed of being a beauty queen since she was 13, but had little time to do anything about it until now.

She is so convinced of this that she is even considering postponing her studies at women-only Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, and  her ward rounds at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, to chase her long-held dream of winning beauty titles.  

 
Her father is a physicist who helped build the Large Hadron Collider, her mother was an executive with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva, and Carina is predicted to get a first-class honours degree in her finals later this year.

Throwing caution to the wind, Carina is unapologetic about her beauty queen quest. She insists her achievement in being crowned Miss Cambridgeshire rivaled the award of the first-class pre-clinical degree she already has, and robustly defending her right to bare her skin and parade at any pageant.

‘I have a very high IQ and I want to be a beauty queen. I don’t see why one has to cancel out the other,’ she says.