It would be quite a simple thing to do with a normal family but they are all more bothered about fighting in court over my dad's will. "I've been blocked by the family over and over and all I want is to put a gravestone where my father is buried. "I've been trying for a year and a half to get one erected but with no success. "I think it's a total disgrace that there is no headstone at my father's grave," said Mr Milligan. Mr Milligan said this week that he had since tried to get a proper headstone erected but had been unable to do so without the permission of the immediate heirs of the madcap comedian, who was buried in Winchelsea in March 2002, after his death at the age of 83. The only monument is a small praying angel, now decorated with a plastic flower, which was placed there last year by James Milligan, 27, and his mother Margaret Maughan, with whom the comic had an eight-year relationship. Visitors yesterday to St Thomas's churchyard in the ancient Cinque Port town of Winchelsea, high on the Sussex coast above the English Channel, were clearly bemused when they eventually found the overgrown plot, marked by pot plants placed by his children and grandchildren on earlier visits and which now struggle to flower above the grass. To the disgust of his fans and to the distress of some family members, the final resting place of the man who created the Goons is notable only for the fact that it is one of only two graves without a headstone in a country churchyard. The grave of Spike Milligan, hailed by millions as a comic genius, remains unmarked more than two years after his death. Australian Reviews - Three Books On Spike Milligan
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