‘You should be afraid’: poison pen letters reignite UK actors’ fund feud

Dame Penelope Keith, the former president of the Actors’ Benevolent Fund, greets King Charles III, the fund’s patron. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA

A bitter feud that tore apart an illustrious actors’ charity has been reignited by the emergence of poison pen letters threatening former trustees.

The annual meeting of the Actors’ Benevolent Fund (ABF) takes place on Tuesday after at least three years of turmoil with little prospect that it will pass off uneventfully.