Versatile stage and screen actor who found TV comedy fame as Sybil Fawlty and later played Elizabeth II on stage Versatile stage and screen actor who found TV comedy fame as Sybil Fawlty and later played Elizabeth II on stage Although it became virtually a weekly occurrence to find Queen Elizabeth II treading the boards in recent years, the first time a reigning monarch was portrayed on the contemporary British stage came when Prunella Scales, who has died aged 93, played Her Majesty in Alan