Lady Anne was named a Citizen of Honour by Liverpool City Council in January last year for her charitable work and contributions to the city.
Her late husband also held numerous titles, including a knighthood in 2017 and a Guinness World Record – after he told a record 1,500 jokes in a near four hour session at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool.
Lady Anne admitted it was hard whittling the breadth of her late husband’s catchphrases to just 25 but added Knotty Ash, both a suburb of Liverpool and mythical home of his ‘Diddymen’, could not make the list despite it reaching some unusually high up places.
She recalled an anecdote from Prince Charles who once asked a group of women on a tour of Balmoral where they were from.
“They replied ‘Knotty Ash’, and he said ‘Oh I thought that was a figment of Ken Dodd’s imagination!'”.
“You can’t really trademark it because it already exists but in a way he brought it to the national knowledge, as it were.”
Aside from catchphrases, Lady Anne said Dodd had been remembered in other ways – notable the gardens of the Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot, Merseyside which was funded by the Dodd estate.
A mosaic of Ken Dodd is also being made at the site, which will be a “more permanent” stamp of his legacy on the performing arts across both the North West and Britain as a whole, she said.