Fawlty Towers actress Prunella Scales has died aged 93, her family have confirmed.
Scales was best known for playing hotel manager Sybil Fawlty, the long-suffering and domineering wife of Basil, in the classic British sitcom.
The actress died “peacefully at home in London yesterday”, her sons Samuel and Joseph said.
They added that she was watching Fawlty Towers the day before she died. Scales had been diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2013…