Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales (née Illingworth; born 22 June 1932) is an English retired actress. She portrayed Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil Fawlty (John Cleese), in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers and Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution (Screen One, BBC 1991), for which she was nominated for a British...