Sunday 6 March 2016 12.53 EST Last modified on Sunday 6 March 2016 16.43 EST  Nancy Davis is seen in a portrait from the play Make with the Maximum at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1943.  Davis with Ronald Reagan in Hellcats of the Navy, from 1957.  California gubernatorial candidate Ronald Reagan holds hands with Nancy Reagan on the campaign trail.  Photograph: Bill Ray/The Life Picture Collection/Gett  President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan waving from their limousine during their 1981 inaugural parade in Washington.  Nancy Reagan dances with Prince Charles during his 1981 visit to America.  Reagan meets an elephant in London in 1984.  In a picture from February 1985, the Reagans escort Margaret Thatcher and her husband Dennis to the British embassy in Washington.  Reagan at a ‘Just Say No’ rally against drug abuse – with attendant superheroes – in Harpers Ferry.  Photograph: Cynthia Johnson/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image  Reagan kisses Mr T, dressed as Santa Claus, at the White House Christmas decoration tour.  Photograph: Diana Walker/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image  In 1992, two years after leaving the White House, the Reagans entertain Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, at their Santa Barbara ranch.  Nancy Reagan touches the casket of her husband, as it lies in state at the Capitol in Washington in June 2004.  Reagan with President George W Bush in October 2005, during dedication ceremonies for the retired Air Force One Boeing 707 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California.  President Obama escorts Nancy Reagan at the White House in 2009, before a signing ceremony for the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission Act.  The Reagans, seen in 1988, at the end of Ronald Reagan’s presidency.
It was announced on Sunday that Nancy Reagan, wife of Ronald Reagan and US first lady from 1981 to 1989, has died at the age of 94