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Rolf Harris’s widow dies year after disgraced entertainer

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Rolf Harris’s widow, Alwen Hughes, has died at the age of 92 just over a year after the disgraced entertainer’s death at her home in Bray, Berkshire.

The Welsh sculptress and jeweller married Harris in 1958 and remained with her husband even after he was convicted of indecent assault on young girls.

Harris died aged 93 on May 10 last year of neck cancer and “frailty of old age”, according to his death certificate.

Fifteen months after his death, Hughes died on August 15 from a stroke after suffering with the frailty of old age and vascular dementia, according to a death certificate obtained by the Daily Mirror.

The Windsor and Maidenhead Register Office confirmed her death was registered with them.

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