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Previously unseen letter details private command performance for the then-Princess Elizabeth
The forces’ sweetheart, Vera Lynn, was ordered to perform at Princess Elizabeth’s 16th birthday celebrations at Windsor Castle in 1942, even though the entertainer was meant to appear in a London variety show the same day.
A letter, headed “secret” and signed by the BBC’s variety booking manager, informed Lynn that her services were “required for a private command performance” laid on by Elizabeth’s father, King George VI. It was addressed to Lynn at the Empire, a variety theatre in Finsbury Park, north London.
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