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This 102 year old man has driven the same Rolls Royce for 82 years - A 1928 Rolls Royce |
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Prunella Stack: The ‘perfect girl’ of the 1930s who led the Women’s League of Health and Beauty
Prunella Stack pioneered women's fitness programmes and was dubbed the "perfect girl" by the press. As head of the 1930s Women's League of Health and
Beauty she was the driving force behind an organisation that touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of women all over the world. She appeared to live
her own life according to the League's motto, "Movement is Life", and was still encouraging women to exercise up till two years ago.
The League gave a generation of women whose fathers, brothers and husbands had been killed in the First World War the opportunity to exercise
together in classes of varying levels of difficulty. In modern terms, Stack might be seen as a forerunner of today's fitness obsession; the League
embraced such disciplines as pilates, aerobics, dance exercise and yoga.
(Gertrud and Prunella at a Women’s League of Health and Beauty 1939)
Born in India in July 1914, Ann Prunella Stack was the daughter of Mary and Captain Edward Hugh Bagot Stack,a captain in the 2nd/8th Gurkha Rifles.
At the outbreak of the First WorldWar, her father embarked for France with his battalion, while she sailedwith her mother to Britain. Capt Stack was
killed at the front before hisfamily had reached Plymouth three months later; nine of the battalion's 11 officers had been killed or wounded in
a single morning.
(Prunella at rehearsals in Liverpool)
(Mary Bagot-Stack the founder of the Women’s League of Health and Beauty)
While in India, Mary Stack noted the physical differences between the British Imperialists and the Indian women of all castes, who seemed to benefit
from yoga, with better posture and greater flexibility. In London she started an exercise class for children and another for women, and in 1925 established
the Bagot Stack Health School. Here she taught teachers – among them Prunella, who qualified in 1930, aged 16, already a veteran demonstrator of her
mother's techniques. Mary promoted a philosophy of exercise structured and graded to the needs of all ages and abilities, and taught by trained physicians,
through huge public displays.
(Prunella Stack leader of the Women’s League of Health and Beauty rehearsing at Wembey Stadium)
Although Mary's health was deteriorating, in an attempt to reach more women she set up the Women's League of Health and Beauty in 1930 in the YMCA
premises on Regent Street in London. At a time of female emancipation, with women gaining the right to vote in Britain in 1928, the League seemed to
cut across class barriers. Membership was affordable, at half a crown, plus sixpence a class. There was a uniform of a white sleeveless blouse and black
shorts; the League created its own energetic style, which was first shown publicly in the Royal Albert Hall in 1931, when 500 members put on a display
of exercises to music; five years later, 5,000 members performed in Olympia.
(Gertrud Scholtz-Klink and Prunella Stack meet in March 1939)
(Women’s League of Health and Beauty rehearsals in 1937)
By this time, however, Stack, aged 20, was now head of the organisation following the death of her mother a year earlier. The first publication of
the League's official magazine, Mother & Daughter, came in 1933. Stack proved more than capable, teaching, performing, and speaking in public with
skill and charm. With her long legs and radiant smile, the popular press adored her and dubbed her the "perfect girl".
(The original Bagot-Stack Dancing Academy dancing at Clacton 1928.
The dancers were apparently ‘in harmony with the rhythm of the wavelets
lapping the sand and with the vibration of the sunlight on sea and
shore. Every movement was an object lesson in the expression of the
strength and health and passionate joyousness of pulsing natural life.”
I totally agree.)
In 1930s Britain, austerity sparked public health fears and the fitness craze gathered pace as Europe began to re-arm and the threat of war loomed
large again. British membership expanded to 166,000 by 1937 and the League developed into an international organisation. The same year, the government
harnessed the momentum built by the Women's League and began a national health campaign. Invited by the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain,
Stack was appointed to the campaign to stress physical exercise as "a matter of national importance".
(The WLHB led by 16 year old Prunella at their first open air demonstration at Hyde Park in 1930)
(The Women’s League Of Health And Beauty exercising during their second, much larger, exhibition at Hyde Park)
In 1937, following the invitation of a Scottish MP to open a school swimming pool with an inaugural dive, Stack met the MP's younger brother,
Lord David Douglas-Hamilton. He proposed, she accepted and they married at Glasgow Cathedral in October 1938. The couple went off on a post-honeymoon
trip to the Alps to share their love of mountaineering.
(Prunella Stack 1933)
(Prunella at a rally in Hyde Park in 1935)
In 1938, Stack took a League delegation to festivals in Hamburg, where she carried the British flag, and then to Finland. Although slightly unnerved
by the "Nazi" experience, in March 1939 she hosted a German contingent. The Douglas-Hamiltons were invited to dine at Claridge's in honour of
Frau Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, the 36-year-old leader of Germany's National Socialist Womanhood, whom Hitler described as "the perfect Nazi woman". With the
outbreak of War in September, the League's girls were being called up and volunteering for service. Stack moved to Dorset to look after her two young
boys, Diarmaid and Iain.
(The League of German Maidens)
Stack's husband joined the RAF and, like his three brothers, became a squadron leader. He led a distinguished career, but as he was returning from a
sortie over France, his badly damaged Mosquito suffered engine failure and crashed just short of RAF Benson: . at the age of 30 Stack was left widowed,
just as her mother had been.
(Prunella Stack – “Nothing more exquisite could be imagined than her beauty and her glamour.
” Or “Fuhrer Stack” which ever you prefer.)
(Bund Deutscher Madel or BDM was the girls’s wing of the Nazi Party youth movement.)
She eventually returned to London, where she spent several years rebuilding the League's membership. During this period, Stack met an old friend,
Alistair Albers, a South African Rhodes Scholar who had returned to London to qualify as a surgeon at Guy's Hospital. Albers, who gave demonstrations
of Zulu dances and war cries to Stack's boys, invited them to visit South Africa.
Stack accepted and they married in Cape Town in 1950. She then set about expanding the League's presence in South Africa, circumventing the newly
written racial laws to set up classes for women in the segregated Cape Coloured suburbs. Nine months later, on Easter Sunday 1951, the couple were
climbing Table Mountain when Alistair lost his hold and fell to his death. She remained in South Africa to continue her work with the League.
In 1953, in defiance of the authorities, Stack led a multi-racial team to perform at the Queen's Coronation in London. She returned with her sons to
London in 1956 and continued as president of the League. Although the League changed its name to the Fitness League in 1999, it has continued to stage
its displays at the Albert Hall, most recently in April last year to mark the organisation's 80th anniversary.
While in London, Stack met the barrister and lecturer Brian Power, whom she married in 1964. The couple lived in London but escaped for breaks to their
much-loved Scottish hideaway in Raasay in the Hebrides, near Skye. He died in 2008.
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Ann Prunella Stack, teacher and fitness educator: born India 28 July 1914;
OBE 1980; married 1938 Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (died 1944; two sons),
1950 Alfred Gustave (died 1951), 1964 Brian St Quentin Power (died 2008);
died London 30 December 2010.
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Posted - 11/10/2017 : 20:52:25
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Pre-Codes: Hollywood
Pre-Codes: Gangsters, Guns, Violence
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OLDIES FOREVER / MUSIC / CARS / MOVIES & Chicas!
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