Keeping up Appearances - Vale Hyacinth Bucket

[mike carey]

Dame Patricia Routledge, perhaps best known as Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet) and as detective Hetty Wainthropp, has died at 96.

Dame Patricia Routledge obituary: The life of TV's magnificently snobby 'Hyacinth Bucket' - BBC News

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A much-loved actress who became famous in the role of Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances.

 

[Guest MikeThomas]

A National Treasure 😞

[mtaabq]

To St Peter: “It’s pronounced ‘Bouquet’, dear. Richard! Open the gates! And help me carry my Royal Daulton with the hand-painted periwinkles!” 

[CuriousByNature]

"Coffee at 10, Elizabeth!"  Or anytime now, I guess.  

[+ sync]

You go "Hyacinth"!

 

[jeezifonly]

Sheridan Bucket was a most accommodating provider in London, back in the day. Fond of candlelight suppers, for which he credited his mum. 😂

Another impressive, more raucous display of stage talent from Dame Pat, 1968. Won her a Tony, the only one for a flop show that closed in a month. What an artist she was! 🥂

 

[MaybeMaybeNot]

One of the best, right behind Lucille Ball and beside Carol Burnett. 

[TonyDown]

I wish you'd smile more when you're gardening, Richard.

 

😢

 

 

Edited October 4, 2025 by TonyDown

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

[Guest MikeThomas]

Sorry if this is behind a paywall...

 

Patricia Routledge was the model great British thespian | The Spectator

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Routledge was a far more versatile and interesting figure, both on screen and in her personal life, than such a designation might suggest.