Brian Power
Who was the spouse of Prunella Stack from May 1964 to May 1965?
Prunella Stack Ann Prunella Stack OBE ( 28 July 1914 – 30 December 2010 ) was a British fitness pioneer and womens rights activist . She was head of the Womens 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 . Career . Her mother developed an exercise system that was brought to a mass market as the Womens 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 . She expanded the League in both the UK and British Empire as well as collaborating with the governments National Fitness Council ( 1937 - 1939 ) to promote physical fitness . One of the characteristics of the League was co-operation between participants in large-scale displays . In 1938 she visited Czechoslovakia to see Sokol gymnastics and also led League delegations to Hamburg in Germany and Helsinki Finland . The League contracted in scale during the Second World War and although Stack continued to teach and be involved with the organisation , others were prominent in the continuation of the League . In 1945 she was elected as a Conservative councillor on Kensington Borough Countil for Redcliff ward . She continued as a councillor for two years . In 1950 she moved to South Africa with her second husband and opened multiracial exercise classes , bringing a multiracial team to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 against authority requirements . She returned to live in the UK in 1956 and continued working on womens fitness , remaining president through a name change to the Fitness League in 1999 , and as more commercial fitness organisations came to the fore . The League staged a display in the Albert Hall in 2010 to celebrate its 80th anniversary . She 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 ( that led to course for them being introduced in the early 1950s ) and became vice-president of the Outward Bound Trust in 1980 . She was awarded an OBE in 1980 . Personal life . Stack was born in India , the daughter of a Sandhurst-trained 8th Gurkha Rifles officer , Captain Edward Hugh Bagot Stack ( 1885-1914 ) , and his Irish wife , Mary Bagot Stack . Her 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 . 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 fathers death in action at the Battle of La Bassee . He is buried in Nord-Pas-de-Calais , France . She lived with her mother , maternal aunts and cousins in London during her childhood , visiting family in Ireland and the Isle of Skye for holidays . She was trained in her mothers exercise system from childhood and was included in lecture-demonstrations . In 1924 they moved from Maida Vale to a large house in Holland Park adjacent to the Ilchester estate where her mother started the Bagot Stack Health School . Stack attended Norland Place School , and then from the age of 13 attended her mothers school for training in dance and exercise , and also a private tutor for academic studies . From September 1930 , aged 16 , she attended the Abbey girls boarding school in Malvern Wells for a year and gained perspective from a more conventional school life . This time initiated a love of the countryside as well as her decision to continue involvement with her mothers organisation , now called the Womens League of Health and Beauty . In 1936 , during a visit to a social event in Oxford , she met a South African Rhodes Scholar medical student , Alfred ( Ally ) Albers , who would eventually become her second husband . They met and took holidays together intermittently until her first marriage . In 1937 she opened a swimming pool for a girls school in Dorset and met Lord David Douglas-Hamilton among the other guests . She subsequently met him at other events , and spent time with him and his family , including visiting Dorset , Scotland and Austria . This included climbing in mountains . She also met Kurt Hahn in his company . In 1938 she made the decision to accept the hand in marriage of Douglas-Hamilton and the wedding took place in Glasgow Cathedral . They 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 . In 1950 , Stack married the surgeon Ally Albers in South Africa . Albers died in a climbing accident in 1951 , while climbing Table Mountain accompanied by his wife . In 1964 , she married Brian Power . He had been born and spent his childhood in Tianjin , China to Irish/British parents who lived in the British Concession . In 1936 he went to study law at Kings College , University of London , planning to return to China . However , when the second world war broke out he joined the Royal Irish Fusiliers in the British Army in 1940 and then remained in the UK working as a barrister . He died in 2008 .