Eastenders legend Sylvia Sims left huge amount in her will after dying aged 89 last year

EASTENDERS fable Sylvia Syms near a immense magnitude successful her volition – including donations for acting schools and paintings for adjacent pals.

The signifier and surface icon, who died past January aged 89, bequeathed astir of her property to her 2 children, probate documents reveal.

The £1.43million sum included £5,000 donations to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art schoolhouse – 1 of the country’s astir prestigious acting colleges, and £2k each to Intermission and Age UK.

Close person and advisor Peter Stephens and different pals chosen by her household were besides offered the accidental to prime a coating from her idiosyncratic collection.

She handed implicit the rest, including her property, to kids Ben and Beatie - who took aft her mum arsenic a TV actress.

Sylvia was champion known for playing Peggy Mitchell’s pal Olive Woodhouse successful Albert Square from 2007 to 2010.

She besides starred arsenic The Queen Mother alongside Helen Mirren successful the Oscar-winning 2006 royal flick The Queen.

In a six-decade career, she featured successful 124 film, TV and theatre productions, retiring successful 2019 astatine the property of 84.

The histrion was nominated for a BAFTA for her relation successful The Tamarind Seed with Julie Andrews, and got an MBE gong astatine Buckingham Palace successful 2007.

Other roles came successful Doctor Who, Casualty, Holby City and successful BBC daytime soap Doctors, wherever she played 3 antithetic characters.

Her last TV quality was successful BBC humanities play Gentleman Jack successful 2019, wherever she played aged mum Mrs Rawson.

She spent her last months astatine at Denville Hall, a attraction location successful London for amusement stars.

After her death, the star’s 2 children led tributes, writing: “She has lived an astonishing beingness and gave america joyousness and laughter close up to the end.

“Just yesterday we were reminiscing unneurotic astir each our adventures. She volition beryllium truthful precise missed.”

An EastEnders spokesperson added: “We are profoundly saddened to perceive that Sylvia Syms has passed away.

“Our emotion and thoughts are with Sylvia’s household and friends.”