Barbara Windsor’s husband reveals her Alzheimer’s battle

Deteriorating health has left 80-year-old former Eastenders star in ‘continual confusion’

Barbara Windsor
Barbara Windsor at a memorial service for comedian Ronnie Corbett at Westminster Abbey in June 2017
(Image credit: Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images)

Eastenders and Carry On star Barbara Windsor has been secretly battling Alzheimer’s disease for the past four years, her husband has revealed.

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