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dame vera.jpg?resize=1200,630 - Britain's Wartime Sweetheart, Dame Vera Lynn, Died Today Aged 103

Britain’s Wartime Sweetheart, Dame Vera Lynn, Died Today Aged 103

Dame Vera Lynn, the British singer, songwriter, and entertainer died at the age of 103.

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She will be remembered forever for her magical voice, phenomenal personality, morale-boosting musical compositions and jeopardizing her own life to visit troops during the Second World War.

The news has blown Britain including some of the prominent personalities.

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Dame Vera Lynn, pictured in her final known photograph on May 7 ahead of the 75th anniversary of VE Day, has died today aged 103
Source: PA

Dame’s musical compositions are more than just words. Her songs were an emblem for thousands of families who were apart as a consequence of war. They were a ray of hope; verbalized for communion on behalf of wives and children who had to let go off their beloveds.

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Dame espoused her musician husband Harry Lewis in 1941. The couple had one child together, named Virginia.

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Dame Vera in 1947
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Her songs carry an ineluctably foreordained sense of warmth and homeliness.point 272 |

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Barries Johnson while forwarding his condolences to the family rightfully stated, “charm and magical voice entranced and uplifted our country in some of our darkest hours.point 148 | Her voice will live on to lift the hearts of generations to come.point 201 |

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” She lived her compassion for music in an unconventional yet remarkable manner.point 70 | point 70 | 1

Dame Vera, pictured in 1940, shortly before she married her musician husband Harry Lewis in 1941 after meeting him in 1939
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Borders never led her to engender an aura of sensation and as she performed for soldiers in Egypt, India and Burma.

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Captain Tom Moore who served in Burma was greatly affected by this news. He states her death to be a ‘great shame’ adding, “She had a sizably voluminous impact on me in Burma and remained important to me throughout my life. My thoughts are with Dame Vera Lynn’s family at this sad time”.

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Prince Charles has led tribute to the singer in a tweet this afternoon having met her several times. Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, also met her before her death
Source: Twitter

Dame Vera was born in East Ham, east London, on March 20, 1917. Her vocation in music has been ever-blooming. In May 2020 she became the oldest artist to stand  on the 40th best album in the UK.

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Countless people pay encomium to this iconic personality saying “There can never be another Dame Vera Lynn.”

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