Dame Vera Lynn has performed her most iconic hit thousands of times in the past nine decades. She has sung it on radio, TV, and film, in the Royal Albert Hall and outside Buckingham Palace.
But just after 9pm on Friday, she will open the living room window of her home in Ditchling, East Sussex, and sing it again with a new passion.
And, as the strains of We’ll Meet Again ring out into the evening air, Dame Vera will be thinking of all those brave fighting men she met and performed for during our darkest hours.
For, while the whole nation marks the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, the 103-year old Forces Sweetheart will feel it with particular poignancy. “I still think about those boys you know,” she reveals quietly. “And I’ve