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.

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.