Sixty-one years ago, Timothy West and Prunella Scales were sitting at a set of traffic lights in Brighton when he asked her to marry him. Just as he was going to kiss her – it was a yes, of course – the lights changed to green.

Prunella Scales, who is best known for her role as Sybil Fawlty in classic sitcom Fawlty Towers, has been battling vascular dementia since 2014.

Prunella Scales will face her battle with dementia without her husband, Timothy West, who has died at the age of 90. The actors were married for 61 years and shared details of Scales’s condition in the television series Great Canal Journeys.

Prunella Scales and late husband Timothy West appeared on BBC Breakfast a year before his death at the age of 90 during which time she left viewers in tears with a tribute to him

Actor Timothy West, who starred in EastEnders and Coronation Street, has sadly died aged 90, leaving behind his actress wife of 61 years, Prunella Scales

British actor Timothy West, who played wartime leader Winston Churchill on screen three times, has died, He was 90

Actor Timothy West died on Tuesday, Nov. 12. During his life, he was married and had three children. Here's what to know about the family.