Welcome to Walford Wiki, we're in the process of checking the data imported from Walford Web. All named characters have been imported and we are just doing the last few characters now without names (e.g. nurses, police etc).

If you can't find what you're searching for please check the old cast databases.

Pauline Fowler

1 Overview
2 Family ties
3 Relationship history
4 Summary
- 4.1 Death and events leading up to it
5 Related links

Overview

Pauline Fowler

Character:	Pauline Fowler
Played by:	Wendy Richard
Dates on screen:	19 February 1985 to 25 December 2006
Episodes:	1935
Previous names:	Beale

Family ties

Father:	Albert Beale
Mother:	Lou Beale
Brothers:	Harry Beale · Ronnie Beale · Kenny Beale · Pete Beale
Sisters:	Maggie Flaherty
Husband:	Joe Macer
Sons:	Mark Fowler · Martin Fowler
Daughters:	Michelle Fowler
Grandsons:	Mark Fowler Jr
Granddaughters:	Vicki Fowler · Rebecca Miller
Aunts:	Flo Medeemey · Doris Miller
Nephews:	David Wicks · Ian Beale · Eamonn Flaherty · Conor Flaherty · John Flaherty · Tommy Flaherty
Nieces:	Elizabeth Beale
Great nephews:	Joe Wicks · Peter Beale · Bobby Beale · Eamonn Flaherty Jr · Declan Flaherty · Carl Flaherty
Great nieces:	Bianca Butcher · Karen Wicks · Lucy Beale · Colette Flaherty · Kylie Flaherty · Mary Flaherty
Great great nephews:	Liam Butcher · Morgan Butcher
Great great nieces:	Tiffany Butcher
Second cousins once removed:	Nellie Ellis

Relationship history

Separated from:	Joe Macer
Deceased husbands:	Arthur Fowler

Summary

Pauline in the 1980s.

The original EastEnder, the show initially revolved around the Beale/Fowler clan, comprising Pauline and Arthur Fowler and their three children, and Pauline's twin brother Pete, his wife Kathy and their son Ian. Ruling over this clan was the first of EastEnders' great matriarchs, Lou Beale.

Since the first episode, Pauline lived in the house she grew up in, first taking care of her ailing mother Lou, then with Mark and his wives Ruth and Lisa, and later with Dot Cotton and her friend Ethel Skinner.

Arthur's death in 1996 left Pauline bereft. The last lodger to live with Pauline was her long-suffering gay best mate, Derek Harkinson. Pauline had hoped their relationship would progress to a romance, but it was not to be.

Pauline in the 1990s.

Pauline has always worked at the local launderette with occasional forays into factory and cleaning work as well. For a while, Pauline was quite bitter, despite attempts by Eddie Skinner and Jeff Healy to woo her, but Derek was, temporarily at least, a good influence on her. Given Martin's incarceration, Mark's recent death from AIDS, and having to say farewell to granddaughter Chloe (now Rebecca Miller), with whom she was temporarily reunited, Pauline's bitterness was understandable. She and daughter-in-law Sonia had reached a peace of sorts, and Pauline became more involved in building friendships with the other middle-aged women around the Square and even mended fences with former sister-in-law Pat Evans.

Pauline and Joe Macer tied the knot for EE's 21st anniversary, but even failed failed to stop Pauline from giving frequent vent to her vituperative side when she encountered Sonia or Naomi Julien. She and Joe briefly separated when she learned about his past, but he worked his way back into her good graces with few problems. She took part in the deception of Margaret Wilson in an effort to have Martin and Sonia named as Rebecca's guardians in Margaret's will. Although the original plot blew up in her face, later, upon Margaret's death, Rebecca was sent to live with Martin - a situation which Pauline never failed to use in her persecution of her daughter-in-law.

Death and events leading up to it

More recently, Pauline became depressed upon overhearing Joe, Martin, Sonia and Dot talking about her - to such an extent that she sat in her room as her house smouldered beneath her. She then seized the opportunity, whilst in hospital to deceive her loved ones, and eventually the rest of the square, that she had a brain tumour. When she was found out by her family, they all left her side, and cut all ties - and Pauline gladly obliged to do similarly - she divorced Joe, sold the veg stall, and planned to leave for Florida. However, at the last moment, she saw sense and decided to remain in the square to be with her family. Tragically, before she was able to make amends, she died, suddenly, on Christmas night, next to Her Arthur's bench. It later turned out that husband Joe Macer had injured her in a row which led to her death.