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Angela Lansbury’s mantle of accolades was made complete with a royal honor.
The London-born actress best known for her role on CBS’Murder, She WrotediedTuesday at age 96, leaving a legacy that includes six Tony Awards, a 1996 Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, a 1997 American National Medal of the Arts, a 2000 Kennedy Center Honor, an honorary Oscar and a 2014 damehood fromQueen Elizabeth.
Born in 1925, just one year before the Queen, Lansbury received the honor (the female equivalent of a knight) for her lifetime acting achievements and charity work eight years ago.
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Lansbury previously metKing Charles IIIat the British Consulate in Los Angeles in 1994, and she greeted the Queen at a Dramatic Arts reception at Buckingham Palace two decades later.
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When the Broadway legend’s family confirmed her death to PEOPLE, they referred to her as Dame Angela Lansbury.
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“The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 a.m. today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday,” they said in a statement.
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