BREAKING: Actress Dame Barbara Windsor Dies at 83
Her husband Scott Mitchell said she had died peacefully from Alzheimer’s at a London care home on Thursday evening, 10 December.
She had been diagnosed with the disease in 2014 and had moved to a care home earlier this year.
Mr Mitchell said she would be remembered for the love, fun, friendship and brightness she brought to all their lives.
Dame Barbara appeared in nine of the 31 films in the comedy series carry on, and sparrows can’t sing, for which she was nominated for a Bafta as well as small parts in chitty chitty bang bang and on the fiddle with Sir Sean Connery.
She was well known to millions of tv viewers for her portrayal of landlady Peggy Mitchell in east-enders, starring alongside her on-screen children Ross Kemp and Steve McFadden.
Her last appearance in the soap came in 2016, the same year she was made a dame for her services to charity and entertainment.
After her dementia diagnosis Dame Barbara became an ambassador for the Alzheimer’s society and met prime minister Boris Johnson to raise awareness about the disease.
The star delivered a letter signed by 100,000 people pleading for better care for people affected by dementia and saying the system was “completely inadequate, unfair, unsustainable and in dire need of more money.
Mr Mitchell, who campaigned alongside his wife said of her death; “it was not the ending that Barbara or anyone else living with this very cruel disease deserved.
“I will always be immensely proud of Barbara’s courage, dignity and generosity dealing with her own illness and still trying to help others by raising awareness for as long as she could.
The couple went public with her diagnosis in 2018 and Mr Mitchell had said they had been really nervous about revealing she was affected by the condition.
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