Former First Lady Nancy Reagan - actress, activist, icon and devoted wife - dies of heart failure aged 94 at her Bel Air home

Nancy Reagan has died at the age of 94. The former First Lady, wife of President Ronald Reagan, passed away in Bel Air on Sunday after suffering congestive heart failure.

Starting as an actress in the 1940s and 1950s, she married Ronald Reagan - then president of the Screen Actors Guild - in 1952. Mrs Reagan was an influential First Lady during her husband's presidency from 1981 to 1989. 

Notably she spearheaded the 'Just Say No' to campaign against drugs, speaking at schools and appearing on TV shows such as Dynasty and Diff'rent Strokes to promote the cause.

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