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Elizabeth " Betty " Williams ( née Preston, previously Turpin ) is a long-standing fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, portrayed by former music hall star Betty Driver.

Driver was cast as Betty in 1969, after first auditioning for the role of Hilda Ogden.

The character arrived in Coronation Street to help her sister Maggie Clegg run the corner shop, and has since had a number of storylines which have seen her become twice widowed, and mother to an illegitimate son.

Working as a barmaid in the soap's Rovers Return Inn, Betty created a signature dish, known as Betty's hotpot.

In 1995, a real-life range of hotpots and pies based on the dish were launched by Hollands Pies, and in 2007, the world's largest Lancashire hotpot was created, based on Betty's recipe.

Driver died in October 2011 and Betty was subsequently written out, with the character dying off-screen of illness in April 2012.