Teddie Beverley, the final surviving member of the close-harmony trio The Beverley Sisters, has died aged 99. Her sisters Joy and Babs passed in 2015 and 2018 respectively.
Teddie, born Hazel Pamela Chinery in Bethnal Green, performed alongside twin Babs and elder sister Joy. The group scored 1950s and 1960s hits including I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus and Little Drummer Boy.
They once mocked BBC censorship with We Have To Be So Careful after a Greensleeves ban. Teddie recalled their sheer tops at a Palladium show: "We said to the Queen Mum: 'Do you think we're rude?' and she roared her head off."
All three received MBEs in 2006. Teddie, married first to Peter Felix then Donald Cottage in 1973, once noted their instinctive harmony: "We don't even have to look at each other to know when to breathe."
She reflected on their career: "If we had been men, we would have been as big as the Rolling Stones, but because we are women, we had children... Nobody could have had a better career."
