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Downton Abbey’s Maggie Smith will revealed as she leaves eight-figure sum after death

The ‘Harry Potter’ star died aged 89 in 2024

The Independent UK · Aug 26

Dame Maggie Smith left £16million fortune to her two sons

Probate records have revealed how the Downton Abbey and Harry Potter legend divided her multimillion-pound estate, property and inherited royalties following her death.

BANG Premier · Aug 26

Clive Revill obituary

Superb stage actor who lent power to British TV productions of the 1970s and made a string of enjoyable movies

The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2025

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A Cruel Love: from Toby Jones to Lucy Boynton, who plays who in the Ruth Ellis drama?

The show tells the tragic story of the last woman in the UK to be hanged for murder

Evening Standard · Mar 3, 2025

Toby Stephens shares details of mother Maggie Smith’s final moments

‘Downton Abbey’ star died in September last year aged 89

The Independent UK · Feb 16, 2025

Dame Maggie Smith obituary

A distinguished, double Oscar-winning actor whose roles ranged from Shakespeare to Harry Potter

The Guardian - UK · Sep 27, 2024

Dame Maggie Smith's Final Curtain: Net Worth, Family And Everything Else You Need To Know About Her

Dame Maggie Smith, the legendary actress known for her roles in Downton Abbey, Harry Potter, and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, passed away at 89, leaving behind a remarkable seven-decade career.

International Business Times UK · Sep 27, 2024

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'True National Treasure' Maggie Smith Dies Aged 89

Oscar-winning British actor Maggie Smith, a star of stage and screen for more than seven decades, died in hospital in London on Friday, her sons announced, prompting a flood of tributes.

International Business Times · Sep 27, 2024

Maggie Smith, British Theatre And Cinema Legend Dies At 89

Maggie Smith, who died on Friday, was an Oscar-winning legend of stage and screen, renowned for playing wide repertoire of characters during a decades-spanning career and personifying a particular kind of English eccentricity.

International Business Times · Sep 27, 2024

Maggie Smith: the magisterial star of Harry Potter and Downton had the courage and talent to do absolutely everything

The real-life dame and on-screen dowager countess, who has died aged 89, earned fame in her 70s and 80s for blockbuster roles. But her early work at the National Theatre marked her out as a talent for the ages

The Guardian - UK · Sep 27, 2024

Dame Maggie Smith: Oscar-winning Harry Potter and Downton Abbey star dies, aged 89

Giant of stage and screen was one of Britain’s most successul stars

The Independent UK · Sep 27, 2024

Southern Baptists expel Virginia church for claiming women can be pastors

Delegates are now said to be considering a blanket ban on women pastors

The Independent UK · Jun 12, 2024

'It's amazing': 40th Radford College art show is on this weekend

Beautiful work by 75 artists as well as students of the school

The Canberra Times · May 17, 2024

The many faces of Falstaff: Shakespeare’s tragicomic knight is as complex as Hamlet

Ian McKellen follows in the footsteps of David Warner and Antony Sher as he takes on a character who has been played as wittily jovial and cruelly cunning

The Guardian - UK · Jan 18, 2024

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The Independent UK · Jun 15, 2023

Farm school victim was threatened after accusing war hero of child sexual abuse

Robert Stephens was eight when he was sent from the UK to a rural farm school in Australia where he suffered years of physical and sexual abuse.

The Independent UK · Jun 10, 2023

King’s charity ‘has insufficient funds’ for child sexual abuse payments

Survivors owed compensation by the Prince’s Trust have been told they will only receive about 1% of the figure they were promised.

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2022

How we made Christmas classic The Box of Delights: ‘For the snow scenes, a fire engine followed us around squirting foam’

‘We used real wolves for the Roman camp part. They were meant to be attacking – but they kept running away with their tails between their legs’

The Canberra Times · Sep 21, 2022

'My dream come true': National Capital Art Prize winners revealed

The 127 finalist works are now on display in Canberra.

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The Hindu · Jul 22, 2022

Robert Stephens’ book, ‘Bombay Imagined’, documents 200 unrealised urban visions

Architect and Mumbaikar Robert Stephens’ new book, Bombay Imagined, records unrealised plans for the city — from an underground railway to monsoon-regulating canals

ABC News · May 23, 2022

William Slim Drive signs taped over as Canberra school plans changing house named for accused child abuser

Road signs indicating William Slim Drive in Canberra are taped over almost three years after it was confirmed it would be renamed following accusations of child sexual abuse against the former governor-general.

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