Dame Vera Lynn’s We’ll Meet Again is an anthem of hope once again. Now 103, she talks about Britain in the face of crisis, then and now Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces’ sweetheart, did not expect her wartime words to soothe a nation in crisis once again.
But after the Queen echoed the lyrics of We’ll Meet Again in her address to the nation last month, the beloved 1939 tune has proved steadying in a time of uncertainty. ‘It was wonderful,’ the 103-year-old reflects. ‘I didn’t know that Her Majesty was going to finish up with the words “we will meet again”, but I think [they] speak to the hope we should all have during these troubling times.’ Indeed those lyrics – streams of which were up by over 200 per cent on Spotify after that royal
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