Crowned: Azalea Festival queen makes her way around Wilmington Owen Hassell
In a Azalea Festival different than any other, even the queen s coronation came with a new twist.
Victoria Huggins was crowned on Wednesday as the 74th Queen Azalea, and as part of 74 virtual waves the former Miss Wilmington and North Carolina embarked on a trip around 74 places in Wilmington.
The traditional queen s coronation is typically at Waterfront Park or Greenfield Lake Amphitheater. However, the pandemic meant a shift to a more virtual format.
Huggins received the crown at BB&T, now Truist, on Third Street downtown. From there she made stops on the Wilmington Riverwalk and North Waterfront Park area, Hotel Ballast, Greenfield Lake Amphitheater (where Huggins added her handprints to a neighboring sidewalk), Pine Valley Market and Thalian Hall among others.
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North Carolina Azalea Festival announces 2021 Queen
The 2021 Azalea Festival Queen, Princess announced By WECT Staff | March 8, 2021 at 8:03 PM EST - Updated March 8 at 11:52 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The North Carolina Azalea Festival announced Monday the 74th Queen Azalea for the 2021 Azalea Festival is Victoria Huggins.
Huggins, a former WECT employee, was Miss Wilmington 2016, Miss North Carolina 2017, and a former emcee of both the Azalea Children’s Tea and the Azalea Festival Princess Scholarship Pageant.
As a news producer for WECT/WSFX, she worked third shift on “Carolina in the Morning” and as a traffic reporter.
Currently a resident of Vass, N.C., Huggins counts this opportunity as one of the greatest honors of her lifetime. She is now a community and media relations manager of the Fayetteville Woodpeckers, a Class A minor league baseball team, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Miss North Carolina organization and the Fayetteville Urban Minist
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