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Dame Patricia Routledge kicks the bouquet at 96

Rob Beschizza
Oct 04, 2025
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Patricia Routledge

Dame Patricia Routledge, most famous for her performance as snobby suburban housewife Hyacinth Bucket in BBC sitcom Keeping up Appearances, is dead at 96. She would surely have appreciated the headline: one of the best running jokes in the show was Hyacinth’s insistence her married name be rendered and spoken “Buckét.”

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