New Delhi: Reita Faria was one of the best known Indians worldwide in her times. She is the the first Indian to wear the Miss World crown in 1966.
She is a qualified medical practitioner and now resides in Dublin, Ireland, with her husband Dr Colin Powell, whom she married in 1971. The couple has two daughters and five grandchildren.
Reita Faria Powel was born in 1945 in Mumbai. Reita grew up in Mumbai with her sister Philomena in a tight-knit Goan family that owned real estate and other businesses.
