SHE was the girl-next-door from East Ham who kept Britain “smiling through” the Second World War. As the nation faced its darkest hour, it wasn’t just the bulldog spirit of Winston Churchill that provided comfort and courage but the dulcet tones and film-star looks of Forces’ Sweetheart Vera Lynn.
So when the devastating coronavirus pandemic ushered in the biggest peacetime crisis since the war, the Queen turned to the words of Dame Vera’s best-loved song. “We will be with our friends again, we will be with our families again . . .
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