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Daily Mirror
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Emily Retter

Dame Vera Lynn life celebrated during Westminster Abbey service two years after death

It was like she knew we needed to hear the words afresh, to be ­reminded to keep smiling through, that a rainbow follows the rain.

As Katherine Jenkins’ voice soared high into the arches of Westminster Abbey yesterday, her rendition of We’ll Meet Again was a beautiful tribute to its original singer, Dame Vera Lynn, at a Service of Thanksgiving for the Forces’ Sweetheart.

But it was also perfectly timed for a Europe enduring the shadow of conflict once more.

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