We woke up to the sad news that Angela Lansbury has sadly passed alway in her sleep a day before her 97th birthday. The actress truly was a treasure and will have been known to people, young and old for her roles in ‘Murder, She Wrote’, as well as being the voice of Mrs Potts in the Disney classic ‘Beauty and The Beast’.

Angela was a legendary actor and was an Oscar-winner, 6-time Tony Award-winner, 6-time Golden Globe-winner and 18-time Emmys nominee.

It’s a sad fact of life that some day, we will be no more, but it doesn’t make it any easier. One thing we can be sure of is that we have a responsibility to leave a legacy, and Angela surely did that.

Her acting career spanned 8 decades. We’ll say that again… 8 decades. That in itself is incredible but it gets better.

According to Tess Sharpe on Twitter, Angela made it a practice to hire guest actors of the golden age that had aged out of the game because it allowed them to earn the union points they needed for insurance, pensions, etc for her work on ‘Murder, She Wrote’.

According to Eric Gonzaba on Twitter, during the worst years of the AIDS crisis, Angela Lansbury was a staple at AIDS benefits, helping raise millions of dollars to fund AIDS research & patient care. She was reported to have said: “This illness is robbing us of our friends and our futures. This disease knows no discrimination.”

Tributes have already been flooding in all over social media and we wanted to share a tribute too because we loved her work including one of our favourite works – Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Did you know that Angela Lansbury was also in Mary Poppins Returns?

Like Angela, we believe in supporting good causes and creating a legacy (which you would expect for an estate planning firm) so we donate a percentage of our revenue to local causes like Community Driving School or Hypo Hounds.

It seems like a fitting way to sign off the tribute with one of her best known lines from Beauty and The Beast – “Off to the cupboard with you now, Chip”. – Mrs Potts.