Remember Barbara Windsor’s incredible legacy with Mirror’s special editions

Remember Barbara Windsor’s incredible legacy with Mirror’s special editions

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Dame Barbara Windsor fans can look back at her incredible life and unforgettable career in a series of special Mirror editions.

The iconic EastEnders actress and Carry On star has tragically died at the age of 83 following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

Barbara will be remembered in commemorative pull-outs in this weekend’s newspapers.

Saturday’s edition of the Mirror will include an eight-page tribute to Barbara, and the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People will both include 16-page specials.

Her death was confirmed just after midnight by her devastated husband Scott Mitchell.

He told PA: “Her passing was from Alzheimer’s/dementia and Barbara eventually died peacefully and I spent the last seven days by her side.

“Myself, her family and friends will remember Barbara with love, a smile and affection for the many years of her love, fun, friendship and brightness she brought to all our lives and the entertainment she gave to so many thousands of others during her career.

“Barbara’s final weeks were typical of how she lived her life. Full of humour, drama and a fighting spirit until the end.

“It was not the ending that Barbara or anyone else living with this very cruel disease deserve.

“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.”

Barbara died at 8.35pm on Thursday at a London care home.

While Barbara’s friends, family members and husband Scott had rallied around her with love and support, she had become lonely during the coronavirus lockdown as she didn’t understand why no one was visiting her.

Scott moved Barbara into a care home earlier this year on the advice of her neurologist.

The actress spoke publicly about her condition in 2018, encouraging people to run the 2019 London Marathon in aid of Dementia Revolution, to “support ground-breaking research to find a cure for a condition that affects so many people, like me”.

Scott announced in 2018 that Windsor had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2014, and spoke of his sadness that she forgot they were married.

Ever since, he stuck by her side and cared for her as best he could.