Joy Beverley death: It was a fairytale life, says Billy Wright's daughter

Joy, one third of the 1950s pop group The Beverley Sisters, passed away on Monday morning. Her family said she had suffered a stroke the week previously.

Vicky, 56, who herself had a pop career with The Foxes and is the partner of Bobby Davro, said her parents met when Joy and her sisters were staying in Wolverhampton due to a performance at the Grand Theatre. They were introduced and it was love at first sight.

"I remember them saying it was like a Disney film when they saw each other," says Vicky.

After a whirlwind three-month relationship with the England captain, London-born Joy tied the knot with Billy in July 1958 at Poole Register Office, with their marriage the first celebrity/footballer wedding.

And growing up, Vicky, who is herself a mother to Kelly, 21, remembers the attention her star parents used to get.

"They were the first Posh and Becks but it was so different then," she recalls. "I didn't realise that dad was a bit of a pin-up, he was a little bit of a hero.

"It was the first time a footballer had fallen in love with a pop star.

"It's so bizarre because to us they were mum and dad and they were wonderful, they loved each other so much and my dad worshipped my mother."

Vicky, who said her father received his 100th England cap just days after she was born in April 1959, also remembers holidaying as children and the family being stopped for autographs.

But most of all she recalls the love and warmth from the family home in Hertfordshire.

"They were just there for us, we got so much love, it was a happy environment and I learned so much from both of them and we strived to have the relationship that they had because it was fairytale.

"I've got so many memories. We used to go to Italy for our summer holidays and there's very happy memories of those holidays and playing with dad.

"He taught me so much about being a good human being."

And Vicky said her mother, who was known as 'the middle one' of The Beverley Sisters and had hits with Sisters and Little Drummer Boy, described her mother as 'magnificent'.

"She was the most magnificent woman - talented and the most wonderful voice and the most wonderful artist on stage," she says.

"It was like the girl band, but it wasn't called that in those days, but they were phenomenal. There had their own TV series on the BBC and headlined at the Palladium. They were kind of retired when we were born and they semi-retired and didn't do the big stuff because they wanted to be at home."

However, Vicky does remember travelling with the family during the summer holidays and watching performances.

"It was a different childhood," she admits. "But to us it was normal".

Of The Beverley Sisters trio - which included Teddie and Babs - Joy was the eldest. Her sisters were twins, born in 1927.

Born in Bethnal Green, the girls seemed destined to have a career in music. Their parents were George and Victoria Beverley, who performed as a music-hall duo.

During the Second World War, the sisters landed a campaign for Ovaltine to star as 'Bonnie Babies' in their adverts.

Their status as celebrities blossomed and they went on to land their own TV show, Three Little Girls In View, which later was re-named as Those Beverley Sisters.

Columbia Records signed them in 1951, and their contract led to them becoming the highest paid female act of their time.

They appeared in the 2002 Guinness Book of Records, performed for the Queen and were later given MBEs for services to music.

Joy and Shropshire-born Billy were married for 36 years until Billy died of cancer in September 1994.

They had three children, Vince, 67, Vicky and Babette, 50, and three granddaughters and one grandson.

"They loved each other so much and it's a comfort to think she is with dad now," adds Vicky.

"Their's was a real love story. I know Wolverhampton loved mum and dad. The letters we got when dad died it was just astonishing."

Joy was living at home in Whetstone in North London at the time of her death.

Wolves' chief executive Jez Moxey today also paid tribute to Joy.

"She brought joy and happiness to many people and was part of the fabric of our club for so many years," he said.

Flags at Molineux were flown at half-mast as a sign of respect following the news.