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Dame Maggie Smith's son Toby Stephens shares heartbreak that he wasn't with his mum when she died last year aged 89


The iconic British actress died at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on September 27 at the age of 89.

Maggie's youngest son Toby, 55, said he wasn't with his famous mum at the time of her death - as she passed away while he was filming his latest project Marama (Seen in 2019) And in 2010 she was central to the success of ITV series Downton Abbey, in her Emmy-award winning role as the acerbic Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, which she continued to play in the films. The late actress's inspirational life was celebrated at Mortlake Crematorium in Richmond, south-west London, where mourners 'belted out hymns' and listened to 'brilliant eulogies', in November.

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