Dame Vera Lynn would be “tickled pink” by a decision to name a footpath to the White Cliffs of Dover in her honour, her daughter says.
Virginia Lewis-Jones, 75, has welcomed a council’s plans to immortalise her mum at the landmark. The hope is for a naming ceremony to be held at Dame Vera Lynn Way to mark the first anniversary of the singer’s death aged 103 on June 18 last year.
Virginia said: “My mum is synonymous with the White Cliffs so this is the perfect way to commemorate her. “Mum would have been tickled pink to have a section of the famous cliffs named after her. "She would have been so pleased… I think this is a really brilliant idea.” Dame Vera was the Forces’ Sweetheart during the Second World War when her morale-boosting songs
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