Prunella Stack

Ann Prunella Stack OBE (28 July 1914 – 30 December 2010) was a British fitness pioneer [1] and women's rights activist.

She was head of the Women's League of Health and Beauty which her mother Mary had founded in 1931. In 1953 she led a multiracial team to the coronation in London.[1]

Personal life

Stack was born in India, the daughter of a Gurkha Rifles officer, Captain Edward Hugh Bagot Stack, and his Irish wife, Mary.[1] At the onset of the First World War in 1914, her father was posted to France, while Stack and her mother embarked on a voyage to England; by the time of their arrival, news had arrived of her father's death in action.[2]

In 1938 she married Lord David Douglas-Hamilton[3] with whom she had two sons, Diarmaid Douglas-Hamilton and Iain Douglas-Hamilton. Douglas-Hamilton, then a squadron leader in the Royal Air Force, was killed in 1944 when his damaged airplane crashed, following enemy action over France.[2]

In 1950, Stack married the surgeon Alistair Albers in South Africa. Albers died in a climbing accident in 1951, while climbing Table Mountain accompanied by his wife.[4] In 1964, she married Brian Power,[5] an Irish barrister.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Veronica Horwell (2 January 2011). "Prunella Stack obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 "Obituary - Prunella Stack". The Daily Telegraph. 31 December 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  3. ↑ "Prunella Stack Weds As Police Tackle Mob". The Montreal Gazette. October 17, 1938. p. 6.
  4. ↑ Martin Childs (1 March 2011). "Prunella Stack: The ‘perfect girl’ of the 1930s who led the Women’s League of Health and Beauty". The Independent. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  5. ↑ Power, Brian. "Brian Power obiturary". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
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