Actress Prunella Scales, best known for her role as the long-suffering Sybil in the British TV comedy classic Fawlty Towers, has died aged 93, her family said on Tuesday.
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The actress died “peacefully at home in London” on Monday, her sons Samuel and Joseph said.
“She was watching Fawlty Towers the day before she died,” they said in a statement on social media, adding that her last days were “comfortable, contented and surrounded by love”.
Scales was diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2013, but continued to work for several years including with her husband, the popular screen and stage actor Timothy West.
The couple were married for 61 years and West, who died in November last year aged 90, was to become her carer.
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In celebration of their diamond anniversary, West penned the memoir Pru And Me: A Love Story, charting the course of their life, including Scales’ dementia diagnosis.