MANILA, Philippines—Several beauty queens have gone on to become wives of soldiers, while some women pursue pageantry after establishing their own families with military officials. But this time a
Lady Chatterly Alvaro-Sumbeling is already a lieutenant commander in the Philippine Navy, who has been serving in the Presidential Security Group under several administrations already, but the lure of a crown dawned upon her and took her chance at the Mrs. Universe Philippines search late last year.Now the 40-year-old mother of three and wife of a Philippine Army officer, is in Sofia, Bulgaria, and will try to snare the Mrs.
After conquering a male-dominated arena, she now embraces her femininity to try her hand in pageantry. But she is leaving no stones unturned. If she received elite training at the PMA to prepare her for the tough life as a soldier, this time she enlisted an international beauty titleholder, Alexandra Faith Garcia, to train her for the bigger pageant ahead.
Taking pointers from a global beauty queen will certainly come in handy for the soldier as she tries to stand out in a competition with more than 100 candidates from all over the world. Sumbeling also had additional time to absorb everything she could learn from Garcia when the 2022 Mrs. Universe pageant, scheduled in December in Seoul, South Korea, was postponed due to unforeseen circumstances.
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