Overview
- Her sons confirmed she died peacefully at home in London on 27 October at the age of 93.
- Samuel and Joseph West said she had been watching Fawlty Towers the day before she died and thanked carers for making her final days comfortable and full of love.
- Samuel West told BBC Radio 4’s Last Word he is about to open as Malvolio in the RSC’s Twelfth Night at the Barbican and feels very sad that neither parent will see it.
- In a podcast recorded shortly before her death, he recalled their last “proper conversation” in 2023 when she asked how old she was.
- John Cleese paid tribute, calling her “a really wonderful comic actress,” as coverage revisited her public journey with vascular dementia, diagnosed in 2013 with symptoms noted as early as 2001.