FORCES sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn yesterday joined soprano singer Hayley Westenra for an emotional rendition of the classic wartime song We’ll Meet Again to officially launch the Royal British Legion’s poppy appeal.
The pair held hands to sing in front of the crowd in London’s Horse Guards Parade, accompanied by the Regimental Band of the Irish Guards and flanked by four troopers from the Queen’s Life Guards in full state ceremonial regalia.
Following the song, Dame Vera, 92, said: “Thank you all for coming here today to be with us as we launch the poppy appeal. While we are doing this I want you all to remember our boys over there in Afghanistan and not forgetting our boys in the last conflict.”
