Rolf Harris told his daughter to take care of her mother before the disgraced pedophile entertainer died of neck cancer at age 93.
Harris told his daughter Bindi to “take care of your mother,” as he spoke through a feeding tube in the days before his passing at his home in Berkshire, England, on May 10.
“I always believed that we would last longer together, but if I go first, promise me that you will take good care of your mother,” he said.
Disgraced pedophile entertainer Rolf Harris’s last words to his daughter were to take care of her mother, two weeks after the former TV star secretly lost his battle with neck cancer (Photo: Rolf Harris with wife Alwen)
A source close to the family said the former TV entertainer begged his only child Bindi to take care of her mother who is receiving 24-hour nursing care as she is in the final stages of Alzheimer’s disease (a 1967 photo from Rolf Harris, Alwen and their daughter Bindi)
Harris’s wife, Alwen, is currently on 24-hour nursing care as she is in the final stages of Alzheimer’s disease. The Daily Telegraph reported.
Before his death, Harris had celebrated his 65th wedding anniversary with Alwen, who was always defiantly by his side – even after being jailed in 2014 for abusing young girls between 1968 and 1986.
Alwen, who is a former dancer, remains in the family property on the riverside in Berkshire, South West England, and is said to be unaware of her husband’s death.
The couple met at an art school in Kennington, south London, in the early 1950s, and the couple eventually married in 1958 at St Saviour’s Church in Paddington.
The couple’s latest photos show the couple smiling as Alwen wears a pink coat and slippers, while Harris puts his arm around her and holds their family dog’s paw.
In another shot, they appear to be laughing together as they take in the view of the lake from their neighbor’s estate, close to their Berkshire home.
Harris met his jeweler and sculptor wife in the early 1950s at art school in Kennington, South London.
However, four years later they got to know each other well when they both exhibited at the Royal Academy.
According to Harris, it wasn’t love at first sight for Alwen, “she was so glamorous, I was this loud Australian,” he told the Daily Mail in 2007.
But the couple finally got married in 1958 at St. Saviour’s Church in Paddington, West London.
Growing up in Wales, Alwen is known for her eccentric choices, including her style of dress and having their poodle Puggy as a bridesmaid at their wedding.
Speaking of their wedding, Harris previously said, “My wife, Alwen, and I bought her a new red collar for the wedding and we took her down the aisle on her leash.
“She was very well behaved and even wag her tail when I put the ring on Alwen’s finger.”
Together they had one child, Bindi, who, according to a family friend, “has had nothing to say for years” about her father who is a sex offender.
Rolf and Alwen Harris pictured on their wedding day
Rolf Harris with wife Alwen in their garden in Berkshire, where she receives 24-hour nursing care as she is in the final stages of Alzheimer’s disease
In June 2014, Harris was convicted of a series of sexual assaults, including one of an eight-year-old seeking an autograph, two girls in their early teens, and a range of abuse from his daughter’s boyfriend over 16 years, beginning when she was just 13.
He was sentenced to five years in prison for 12 sexual assaults against four underage girls between 1968 and 1986, but Alwen never hesitated to publicly support her husband.
In 2017, while still in prison, the disgraced entertainer went on trial for a second time, charged with four assaults against three teenage girls.
He denied the charges and was found not guilty after the jury failed to agree on a verdict.
After the acquittal, his attorney read a statement on behalf of Harris that he wanted his client to spend his remaining time with his wife.
He was released in May 2017 after spending three years in HM Prison Stafford.
Harris struggled to speak after cancerous tumors grew on his neck following his release from prison.
He was fed through a tube before his death and was seen in a wheelchair outside the house.
He had not spoken publicly or apologized for his crimes since his release.
A statement from his family, released through his lawyer after his death, read: ‘This is to confirm that Rolf Harris recently passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends and is now buried.
“They ask you to respect their privacy. No further comment will be made.’
Harris has already been cremated after his death on May 10.