Dame Vera Lynn

[Orange Cola]

Yep

Dame Vera Lynn: Forces' Sweetheart dies aged 103 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53091856

[Jimmy Choo]

We won't meet again. RIP.

[mik]

Can’t complain about 103. RIP.

[Rich B]

I’d always assumed she was someone who only existed in “black and white” History (Really old tv and photos). Like Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin or Marilyn Monroe, you knew who they were and what they did, but they were long gone.

103 is a bloody good innings though!

[Delphi]

RIP. But as has already been said 103 is a storming innings.

[JonMad]

Like the Queen or Prince Phillip, it had to happen eventually.

RIP

[Rich B]

Like the Queen or Prince Phillip, it had to happen eventually.

RIP

the queen and Prince Philip aren’t dead?!

[JonMad]

Obviously. But in terms of someone who's just there seemingly forever and is a national institution who has been around forever, ultimately that sad* day will come.

*or not, in the case of the Royals, depending on your point of view.

[Rich B]

Like the Queen or Prince Phillip, it has to happen eventually.

[JonMad]

meh

[nuttinnew]

From what I remember of bits read over the years, she didn't shy away from the front line when it came to entertaining troops, and would shun the officers' mess. To have made it through the war, never mind to 103, is remarkable. R.i.p..

[PaulJ]

To bring her a little closer to your technicolour cultural references, she was name checked in Ebenezer Goode by the Shamen. - 'Has anybody got any Veras?'

RIP.

[JonMad]

To bring her a little closer to your technicolour cultural references, she was name checked in Ebenezer Goode by the Shamen. - 'Has anybody got any Veras?'

RIP.

I doubt that was a conscious reference by the Shamen to her as the Forces' Sweetheart.
https://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/vera_lynn_1

[Jimmy Choo]

Like the Queen or Prince Phillip, it had to happen eventually.

RIP

the queen and Prince Philip aren’t dead?!

Phil the Greek has been dead for years. They just keep reanimating his corpse.