When Sally Silverstone was introduced to Jack Rose, a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, on a blind date at the Café Royal in London in 1942 it was love at first sight. They wrote to each other every day on fine blue airmail paper while Jack served in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon. The only letter that went astray was the one asking her to marry him. Jack wrote and asked Sally again. It came with a house and they would

Source: The Times March 27, 2021 00:00 UTC