Kate the daring duchess
WEARING an elegant spotted dress, the Duchess of Cambridge visited Bletchley Park yesterday and spoke of how her codebreaker grandmother felt unable to tell her about the wartime work she did at the secret base.
The duchess, who also wore her late relative’s brooch, told pupils from Akeley Wood Primary School: ‘My granny and her sister worked here. It’s very cool. When she was alive sadly she could never talk about it. She was so sworn to secrecy that she never felt able to tell us.’
Kate also met four women who had worked at the Buckinghamshire base at the same time as her grandmother, Valerie Glassborow.
The duchess, who wore an Alessandra Rich dress for her outing to an exhibition marking 7 years since the D-Day landings, said their work had been ‘very important’.