Photos: Beauty queen dethroned for being too old, another in pageant mix up

A beauty queen was stripped of her crown due to age. Amanda Longacre who contested in Miss Delaware beauty contest said she learned that she had been disqualified because the Miss Delaware pageant determined that she had violated the age requirement but she had done nothing wrong and wants to be allowed to compete in the Miss America pageant even though she will turn 25 this year. A tearful Longacre said she was consulting a lawyer but pageant rules require Miss Delaware contestants to be no older than 24 and they cannot turn 25 before the end of the year. Longacre’s 25th birthday is October 22. In another rave, the winner of the 2014 Miss Florida pageant was dethroned on Friday just a week after her coronation when organizers said they had crowned the wrong woman after a vote-count error. Pageant officials said Elizabeth Fechtel, a 20-year-old University of Florida student, would have to turn over her tiara to the true Miss Florida, 21-year-old Florida State University student Victoria Cowen. Delaware’s Longacre said on Friday that she had been honest when she turned in her pageant application, providing her birth certificate, driver’s license and other documents.

                                                                      Amanda Longacre

Elizabeth Fechtel (R)