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The love story that shaped Prunella Scales' life: How a chance meeting with Timothy West on a BBC drama led to their tender 60-year marriage - before they touched the nation's hearts with her dementia battle

The actress, who has died aged 93, starred alongside veteran actor West in a series of televised canal journeys even as both were coping with her diagnosis of dementia.

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