"My beautiful 98-year-old mum has taken her final bow. After a loving evening where we knew she was on her way surrounded by children, grandchildren and pizza, she told us all to fuck off so she could go to sleep. And then she never woke up. Her final words were I love you'."
"Emma Freud noted her mother's last film role, as the Downing Street housekeeper in Love Actually written and directed by her son-in-law, Richard Curtis as well as the 30 years she spent running repertory theatre companies in Suffolk, employing hundreds of actors who loved her for her passion, her care, her shepherd's pie, her devotion to regional theatre and her commitment to actors' rights."
"Born June Flewett in London in 1927, she was evacuated as a young teenager to Oxford and eventually employed as a housekeeper at the Kilns, the house Lewis shared with his brother, Warnie, and adoptive mother and possible partner Janie Moore. Speaking to the Daily Telegraph in 2005, she recalled knowing her first meeting with Lewis was something momentous and confessed to a schoolgirl crush on him."
Jill Freud died aged 98. Her final evening was spent surrounded by children, grandchildren and pizza, and her final words were "I love you". She appeared as the Downing Street housekeeper in Love Actually and spent 30 years running repertory theatre companies in Suffolk, employing hundreds of actors and championing actors' rights. She maintained a simple daily lunch of a glass of red wine and a packet of crisps, and at 93 took part in a daily tap class during Covid. Born June Flewett in London in 1927, she was evacuated to Oxford as a teenager and later worked as housekeeper at the Kilns where C.S. Lewis lived. She was mother of five, grandmother of 17 and great-grandmother of seven, and was remembered as feisty, outrageous, kind, loving and mischievous.
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