Fawlty Towers star Prunella Scales left more than £3 million in her will following her death at the age of 93.
The actress, who had dementia, died peacefully at her home in London in October 2025.
Probate records show she left a gross estate of £3,376,585 (€3,949,405), with a net value of £3,166,554 (€3,703,870).
Her beneficiaries are her sons Samuel and Joseph and her stepdaughter Juliet.
Her sons will each receive 40% of her estate, while her stepdaughter will receive 20%.
Scales also left money to her goddaughters, as well as the charities The Royal Horticultural Society, The Snipe Charitable Trust, The Campaign to Protect Rural England, and The Combined Theatrical Charities Appeals Council for The King George V Fund for Actors.
Records show probate was granted on 11 August, 2026.
Actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales (pictured in London in September 2004) were married for 61 years
The Snipe Charitable Trust, which provides grants to charitable organisations and furthers the education and training of young people in the arts, is to receive £10,000.
The RHS and the Campaign to Protect Rural England will receive £1,000, while the Combined Theatrical Charities Appeals Council will receive £5,000.
Scales was best known for her role as Sybil Fawlty, the long-suffering wife of hotelier Basil Fawlty, played by John Cleese, in the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers.
The show, made up of only 12 episodes, ran from 1975 to 1979 and is considered one of the best comedies of all time.
Announcing Scales’ death last year, her sons said she had been watching Fawlty Towers the day before she died.
John Cleese and Prunella Scales in a scene from the Fawlty Towers episode A Touch of Class
The stage and screen veteran was married to fellow actor Timothy West for 61 years. He died in November 2024.
Together, the couple filmed 10 series of the Channel 4 programme Great Canal Journeys, which saw them travel across the UK and other parts of the world exploring different waterways.
The couple also talked openly about Scales’ vascular dementia diagnosis.
Their last journey for the programme was broadcast in June 2019.
Source: Press Association