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Prunella Stack
British fitness pioneer
Ann Prunella StackOBE (28 July 1914 – 30 December 2010) was a British fitness pioneer[1] and women's rights activist.
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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]
Career
Her mother developed an exercise system that was brought to a mass market as the Women's League of Health & Beauty.
Stack had participated in these exercises since a young child and became an instructor. She and her maternal aunt Norah Cruickshank headed the league from 1936 after the death of her mother. Stack undertook teaching, performing and public speaking while Cruickshank dealt with administration and public relations.[2][3] She expanded the League in both the UK and British Empire as well as collaborating with the government's National Fitness Council (1937 - 1939) to promote physical fitness.