Her family confirmed that the legendary performer passed away “peacefully at home in London,” surrounded by love, according to BBC.

Her sons, Samuel and Joseph, said in a statement:

“Our darling mother Prunella Scales died peacefully at home in London yesterday. She was 93. Although dementia forced her retirement from a remarkable acting career of nearly 70 years, she continued to live at home.”

Struggling to remember lines

They added that their mother had been watching Fawlty Towers the day before she passed.

Scales had been diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2013, a condition that slowly took her away from the public eye but never dimmed the affection audiences felt for her. People close to her realized something was wrong in 2003, when she began struggling