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Dame Vera Lynn’s daughter 'constantly talks' to iconic singer’s ghost: 'Spirits never die'


Wartime singer Dame Vera Lynn, died in June earlier this year at the impressive age of 103, but her daughter Virginia Lewis-Jones explains she’s still very much alive in her heart. So much so, that days after the release of her posthumous album Keep Smiling Through, Virginia admitted that she calls on her late mother for advice and help miraculously appears.

In a recent interview, the 74-year-old also told of how she speaks her long-dead musical father Harry Lewis, who died in 1998 aged 83, for help and “nine times out of ten” a solution materialises.

Virginia and her husband have lived in Dame Vera’s house in Ditchling, East Sussex, for around seven years, after they moved nearer her in 2010.

When asked if she feels her mum’s presence, Virginia said: “You have sort of chats – ‘What do you think about this?’ or, ‘You want me to do that?’.

“And eventually you work it out. Or – it’s either you working it out, and she’s said nothing, but you don’t quite know.

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“She always had very definite ideas and I think possibly subconsciously one hangs onto those ideas, from parents, and when you find yourself in a certain situation that comes through subconsciously.”

Virginia smiled as she told The Daily Star: “Oh yes, I’m a great believer in the spirit never dies.”

She also calls on her father for odd bits and bobs.

“If I’ve got a problem about the finances, I always say to my father, who passed away 22 years, ago, ‘What am I going to do about this?’

“I was looked after by a nanny, or if Mummy was away for longer my grandmothers would stay. Once she went to America for a couple of months [in 1952].

“She rang me every day, but she was quite put out once because I said, ‘Hello Mummy, I’m just off to a party, bye.'”

Virginia confessed she never thought of Dame Vera as properly famous, despite her inspirational career.

“I knew she was a celebrity, so I was used to her being in the papers and on the radio, but I never thought of her as humungously famous,” she remembered.

“Fame was different then, without all the hype and gush of today. It was quite exciting occasionally when she was on the same bill as the Beatles. But otherwise it was just ordinary.”

Dame Vera made her broadcasting debut in 1935 on radio, singing with the Joe Loss Orchestra.

When the war struck in 1939, she volunteered for work but was told the best thing she could do was entertain by performing for the troops.

Her success continued well into the 1950s, where she scored a string of hits including Forget Me Not, The Homing Waltz and Number 1 hit My Son My Son.





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