Piers Morgan details sighting ahead of Dame Vera Lynn’s funeral ‘Couldn’t work it out’

Dame Vera spoke out about her Forces Sweetheart label in an interview in 2014.

Speaking to Radio Times, she said: “I never thought the Forces’ Sweetheart tag would stay with me, but it has, hasn’t it?

“I thought it would last for the war period, then I’d just be another singer.

“Of course I’ve never minded that everybody always connects me with that time. It was so important.”