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Barbara Windsor

June 2023

  • Ronnie Knight and his wife, Barbara Windsor, centre, at the El Morocco nightclub in Soho, London, 1965, with the gangster Reggie Kray, right, and his wife, Frances.

    Ronnie Knight obituary

    London nightclub owner and criminal who helped fellow crooks evade justice on the ‘Costa del Crime’ in Spain
  • Barbara Windsor in 2002.

    Barbara Windsor was funny, vivid, feisty … but I saw her vulnerable side

  • Barbara Windsor in Albert Square

    Barbara Windsor: a working-class hero who became a legend

    Michelle Collins
  • Barbara Windsor and Scott Mitchell outside 10 Downing Street

    Alzheimer's charity leads tributes to Barbara Windsor's 'incredible legacy'

  • Barbara Windsor as Marie Lloyd in Sing a Rude Song in 1970.

    Barbara Windsor: a priceless and mischievous stage sensation

  • Barbara Windsor in Carry On Doctor

    Dame Barbara Windsor obituary

  • Bafta-nominated … Barbara Windsor in 1963 kitchen-sink drama Sparrows Can’t Sing.

    Before Carry On typecast her, Barbara Windsor was a brilliant kitchen sink star

  • Barbara Windsor, star of Carry On films and EastEnders, dies at 83

  • 'Goodnight sweetheart': British TV stars pay tribute to Barbara Windsor

  • Babs Windsor: the daring, giggling pearly queen of the screen

  • Barbara Windsor: a life in pictures

August 2019

  • The Royal Academy

    Holistic approach to dementia is needed

  • Barbara Windsor with Boris Johnson when he appeared on EastEnders in 2009.

    Barbara Windsor calls on PM to tackle UK's dementia funding crisis

July 2019

  • Fiona Sturges

    Carry On films weren’t all bad; they celebrated the working class in its heyday

    Fiona Sturges
    For all their many flaws, the films carry a positive message, too, says arts writer Fiona Sturges

May 2018

  • Barbara Windsor

    Barbara Windsor has Alzheimer's disease, husband reveals

    EastEnders and Carry On star was diagnosed four years ago and symptoms are getting worse

February 2018

  • Barbara Windsor in her dressing room at the Prince of Wales Theatre

    Observer picture archive
    Observer picture archive: Barbara Windsor in The Threepenny Opera, 2 February 1972

  • Barbara Windsor: ‘This is the most fantastic theatrical part I’ve ever had.’

    Barbara Windsor opens in The Threepenny Opera, 2 February 1972

January 2018

  • Frances Shea (far left) and her husband, English gangster Reggie Kray (far right) with actress Barbara Windsor and her husband Ronnie Knight, at the El Morocco nightclub, Soho, London, 30 April 1965.

    From the Guardian archive
    Ronnie Knight, the clubland charmer who fell under the spell of fame – archive, 1995

    5 January 1995 Justice catches up with the gangland figure as he is jailed for seven years

May 2017

  • Jaime Winstone plays Barbara Windsor and Zoe Wanamaker plays Joan Littlewood in the BBC1 biopic Babs.

    TV review
    Babs review – going beyond the sexist ‘giggle and the wiggle’ to the real Barbara Windsor

    A heartwarming and only occasionally cliche biopic from ex-EastEnders writer Tony Jordan. Plus, insights are scant in Dara and Ed’s Road To Mandalay

December 2016

  • ‘Desperate times’ … Phelps’s adaptation of The Witness for the Prosecution.

    Sarah Phelps on writing EastEnders sex scenes and shaking up Agatha Christie

    Last Christmas, she rocked the cosy hatpin world of Agatha Christie adaptations with a blast of sex, drugs and savagery. What is the writer planning for this year’s whodunnit? And will we ever see her adult EastEnders?
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