Stella Price (previously Munro) is the mother of Eva Price and Leanne Tilsley and former landlady of the Rovers Return Inn. Born to Gloria Price, Stella became a mother in 1981 aged eighteen after giving birth to Leanne. However her lover Les Battersby refused to let Stella see Leanne, and Stella wouldn't see her daughter again until thirty years later. In that time, she gave birth to another daughter Eva and entered a relationship with taxi driver Karl Munro.