The Duchess of Cambridge has spoken about how ‘immensely proud’ she is of her late grandmother for her work in helping to crack enemy codes during World War II.
Kate opened up about her grandma Valerie Glassborow’s work in a foreword in the GCHQ Puzzle Book.
The book, which is being released by the UK Government Communications Headquarters, a national intelligence and security agency, is packed with complex brainteasers.
Introducing the book, the Duchess wrote, ‘I have always been immensely proud of my grandmother, Valerie Glassborow, who worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.
‘She and her twin sister, Mary, served with thousands of other young women as part of the great Allied effort to break enemy codes. They hardly ever talked about their wartime service, but we now know just how important the men and women of Bletchley Park were, as they tackled some of the hardest problems facing the country.’
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Her grandmother went on to marry the Duchess’s grandfather Peter Middleton in 1964. She passed away in 2006 – five years before Kate’s Royal wedding – at the age of 82.
GCHQ will donate proceeds from the bookto the Heads Together campaign, an initiative led by the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess and Prince Harry.
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