In the TV series, Routledge played a middle-class woman who did everything to appear as a refined lady with an upper-class background.
The TV series was counted as one of the BBC's 100 best sitcoms of all time.
Patricia Routledge won the British Comedy Award in 1991 for her role in "Skenet bedrar". She was also nominated for two Bafta awards. Routledge was also a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
She became 96 years old.
