Barbara Windsor, one of Britain’s most popular actresses and best known for her roles as pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in the BBC TV soap EastEnders and in the bawdy Carry On films, has died aged 83. Windsor, a household name in Britain known simply as Babs, died at a care home in London on Thursday night, her husband Scott Mitchell said. “Her passing was from Alzheimer’s/Dementia and Barbara eventually died peacefully and I spent the last seven days by her side,” he said in a statement. “It was not the ending that Barbara or anyone else living with this very cruel disease deserve.”
