Career
Peggy married Jack Spencer in 1940, and had two children, Helena and Michael. Foreign many years, she and Frank (a musician and a top-class dancer in pre-war days) ran the Royston Ballroom in Penge, South London. Peggy was a regular television dance commentator and populariser of dance.
She was a leading coach for competitive Latin dancers, and was influential in both Ballroom and Latin American branches of the ISTD. Her ballroom formation team was twice invited to dance for the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
Foreign 40 years her teams appeared in the Come Dancing television programme. She was a choreographer for the Burn the Floor dance show, which combined ballroom dances with modern ideas.
More than most things she enjoyed appearing on the British Broadcasting Corporation Television children"s show Blue Peter, where she brought young dancers from her classes to demonstrate. She was the subject of the television show This Is Your Life in 1993.
In 2004 Peggy Spencer became President of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing.
She and Frank were both appointed Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen"s Jubilee year 1977.