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Vera Lynn

November 2021

  • Vera Lynn singing into a microphone

    Vera Lynn secretly ordered to sing at Queen’s 16th birthday

    Previously unseen letter insists on strict secrecy over command performance for then-Princess Elizabeth

April 2021

  • Tom Jones with his trophy for his No 1 album, Surrounded By Time.

    Tom Jones, 80, becomes oldest man to top UK album chart

    Welsh singer says he is ‘forever grateful’ for achievement but remains 12 years behind Vera Lynn’s all-time benchmark

March 2021

  • Dame Vera Lynn in 2009

    Sculpture of Dame Vera Lynn planned for cliffs of Dover

    Family announce memorial for singer who died last year aged 103

July 2020

  • The funeral procession pauses in the centre of Ditchling during the funeral of Dame Vera Lynn

    Vera Lynn honoured with flypast in her East Sussex village

    Two second world war fighter planes fly over Ditchling before beloved singer’s funeral

20 June 2020

  • Barbara Ellen

    Talk to your child about porn. No one else will do it, or should

    Barbara Ellen
    Parents have a responsibility to protect their young from increasingly explicit online content

19 June 2020

  • Vera Lynn performing in 1962.

    The night I watched Vera Lynn with Marlene Dietrich

    Nancy Banks-Smith
    The wartime sweetheart crooned on stage while the formidable actress slapped her breeches with a riding whip in the wings. Fifty years later, I’m still trying to get my head around it

18 June 2020

  • Joan Bakewell

    Vera Lynn's soaring voice gave Britons hope when hope was most scarce

    Joan Bakewell
  • Dame Vera Lynn in 2010 outside the Churchill War Rooms in London.

    We'll Meet Again: how toxic nostalgia twisted Vera Lynn's pop masterpiece

  • Stephen Moss

    Vera Lynn: the best of the wartime spirit, not its continuation by other means

    Stephen Moss
  • The song became an anthem of hope and resilience during the second world war

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    'We'll meet again': Vera Lynn's anthem of hope through the ages – video

  • Dame Vera Lynn, singer and 'forces' sweetheart', dies aged 103

  • Dame Vera Lynn obituary

  • Dame Vera Lynn: a life in pictures

May 2020

  • The Red arrows fly over Buckingham Palace on VE Day

    Solemnity and celebration as Britain pays VE Day tribute to war generation

    On doorsteps and in living rooms people bow their heads as royal family and RAF lead commemorations
  • Ellie Ingham, six, prepares bunting for VE Day celebrations in Northampton, UK.

    VE Day 75 timetable: Prince Charles to lead event with two-minute silence

    Prince will read from George VI’s diary, followed by doorstep singalong, Churchill speech and Captain Tom documentary
  • Katherine Jenkins with ‘forces’ sweetheart’ Dame Vera Lynn, now aged 103, in 2005

    Katherine Jenkins to perform VE Day concert at empty Royal Albert Hall

    Singer will perform duet with Dame Vera Lynn in show being streamed on Friday

April 2020

  • Martin Rowson 7.4.20

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Martin Rowson on the Queen's coronavirus broadcast - cartoon

    The Queen has praised Britain’s ‘national spirit’ in facing the challenge of coronavirus as she evoked wartime memories and urged comfort in the fact: ‘We will meet again.’

December 2019

  • Dame Vera Lynn

    Vera Lynn stops name being used to market gin in trademark ruling

    Drinks company Halewood International said ‘Vera Lynn’ was cockney rhyming slang

March 2018

  • Myleene Klass

    Classic Brit awards to make comeback after five-year absence

    Ceremony once damned as ‘fundamentally tacky’ to make Royal Albert Hall return in June

December 2017

  • Dame Vera Lynn at home in Sussex.

    My family values
    Vera Lynn: ‘Mum was determined to put me on stage. I didn’t complain’

    The singer, 100 this year, talks about her childhood, earning more than her dad, meeting her musician husband and why she had a small family
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