The Queen issued a positive New Year message on social media this afternoon, reassuring Britain that 'better days will return' and 'we will meet again'.
She reprised the words from her televised message on April 5 soon after the start of the pandemic in a tweet which also wished people a 'happy and healthy New Year'.
Today's message quoted the 94-year-old monarch saying: 'We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again.'
The final four words - 'we will meet again' - were a tribute Forces' sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn's Second World War anthem, who died earlier this year on June 18.