We all fell about laughing when we heard it. "We're very pleased it's been resolved and with such a classic Spike line. "It was very sad that the grave was in such a state, but it was down to very sensitive family problems and we simply could not get involved. We had been very concerned for some time about the situation. His widow, Shelagh, whom he married in 1983, applied for the headstone last year.īill Horsman, chairman of the Goon Show Preservation Society, said today: "News of the headstone going up on Spike's grave is marvellous. The grave is marked with a simple headstone that bears the inscription Spike Milligan KBE. Peter’s Cemetery in the town of Hove, in East Sussex, England. the grave where the 83-year-old was buried in March last year lacked a headstone. Advertisement Novemby Robin Spike Milligan’s grave is located in St. Milligan, who died in 2002, lived at Udimore, near Rye, and had three children with his first wife, June Marlow, and one with his second wife, Patricia Ridgeway. A FAMILY row over comedian Spike Milligan’s grave has degenerated into the sort of farce that the last of. The headstone bears the words "Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite", or "I told you I was ill", and the English words "Love, light, peace". Milligan's family had been unable to agree on a headstone, and finally settled on the Gaelic text to meet with approval from the Chichester Diocese. Two years after he died aged 83, relatives of the Goon Show creator have erected a headstone on his grave bearing the star's epitaph: "I told you I was ill."īut only those well versed in Gaelic will be able to read the inscriptions on the Celtic cross memorial at St Thomas's Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex. EVEN in death, comic genius Spike Milligan has raised a laugh among his adoring fans.
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