Adventures in Wonderland and abridged novelisations of the Hetty Wainthropp series. Personal life Routledge has never married and has no children. In a 2001 interview, she said: "I didn't make a decision not to be married and not to be a mother. Life just turned out like that because my involvement in acting was so total". In the same interview, Routledge discussed two affairs she had been involved in: one with a married man whilst in her late 20s and the other being some years later with a man directing a play she was appearing in. She has lived in Chichester since 2000 and regularly worships at Chichester Cathedral. In 2020 she helped raise £10,000 towards the restoration of the cathedral roof. Routledge is a patron of the Beatrix Potter Society and an ambassador for the charity Royal Voluntary Service, previously known as WRVS. Honours Routledge was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1993 Birthday Honours, Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2004 Birthday Honours, and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to theatre and charity. In 2008, Routledge received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from Lancaster University for her contribution to drama and theatre. On 15 March 2019, Routledge received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Chester at Chester Cathedral for her contributions to theatre and television. In 2022, the Royal Academy of Music conferred Routledge with honorary membership. An honorary president of the Association of English Singers & Speakers (which exists to "encourage communication of English words in speech and song with clarity, understanding and imagination"), she has sponsored the annual AESS National English Song Prize from 2003 to the present. Screen and stage work Film Television Stage Discography Cast recordings Studio albums Awards and nominations References External links StackPath selected performances in Theatre Archive University of Bristol Interview January, 2015, in the Coeur d' Alene Press Patricia Routledge at the British Film Institute Patricia Routledge (Aveleyman) 1929 births 20th-century English actresses 20th-century English singers 20th-century English women singers 21st-century English actresses 21st-century English singers 21st-century English women singers Actresses awarded damehoods Actresses from Merseyside Alumni of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Alumni of the University of Liverpool Audiobook narrators Dames Commander of the Order of the British