Peggy Spencer

Margaret Ann Spencer MBE (née Hull; 24 September 1920 – 25 May 2016)[1] was a British professional ballroom dancer, choreographer, competition adjudicator, and organiser.

Peggy formed a close relationship with her brother-in-law Frank, whom she eventually married in the late 1960s.

[2] For many years, she and Frank (a musician and a dancer before the Second World War) ran the Royston Ballroom in Penge, South London.

[3] Peggy choreographed a dance sequence for a Beatles video ("Your Mother Should Know"), and the tango for Rudolph Nureyev in the film Valentino (1977).

More than most things she enjoyed appearing on the BBC's children's show Blue Peter, where she brought young dancers from her classes to demonstrate.