A glamorous female chess champion dubbed a real-life Beth Harmon from ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ mini-series is bidding to also be crowned Miss England.
Emily Cossey, 24, will swap playing the queen for being a beauty queen when she treads the catwalk as the first woman to reach this year’s final.
The chemical engineering graduate only took up pageantry 12 months ago and was left stunned when she was announced a Miss England 2022 finalist earlier this month.