Ann Prunella Stack OBE was a British fitness pioneer and women's rights activist.
13 Facts About Prunella Stack
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Prunella Stack was head of the Women's League of Health and Beauty which her mother Mary had founded in 1931.
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Prunella Stack undertook teaching, performing and public speaking while Cruickshank dealt with administration and public relations.
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Prunella Stack expanded the League in both the UK and British Empire as well as collaborating with the government's National Fitness Council to promote physical fitness.
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The League contracted in scale during the Second World War and although Prunella Stack continued to teach and be involved with the organisation, others were prominent in the continuation of the League.
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Prunella Stack returned to live in the UK in 1956 and continued working on women's fitness, remaining president through a name change to the Fitness League in 1999, and as more commercial fitness organisations came to the fore.
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Prunella Stack was a member of the Management Committee of the Outward Bound Trust at its inception in 1946, initially led the Advisory Committee on running Outward Bound courses for girls and became vice-president of the Outward Bound Trust in 1980.
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Prunella Stack's father, born in Shillong in 1885, came from a line of Britons who had served in British India, her paternal grandfather having been the Indian Civil Service officer Edward Stack.
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Prunella Stack lived with her mother, maternal aunts and cousins in London during her childhood, visiting family in Ireland and the Isle of Skye for holidays.
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Prunella Stack was trained in her mother's exercise system from childhood and was included in lecture-demonstrations.
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Prunella Stack attended Norland Place School, and then from the age of 13 attended her mother's school for training in dance and exercise, and a private tutor for academic studies.
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Prunella Stack subsequently met him at other events, and spent time with him and his family, including visiting Dorset, Scotland and Austria.
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In 1950, Prunella Stack married the surgeon Ally Albers in South Africa.