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Evening Standard
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Laura Harding

‘National treasure’ Prunella Scales remembered as a ‘gifted human being’

Prunella Scales (Barry Batchelor/PA) - (PA Archive)

Fawlty Towers actress Prunella Scales has been remembered as a “national treasure” and a “gifted human being” after her death at 93.

The TV star, best known for playing Sybil Fawlty, the long-suffering wife of John Cleese’s hotelier Basil Fawlty, died at home on Monday.

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