Kate Middleton is pretty in polka dots for D-Day commemoration

The Duchess Of Cambridge Visits Bletchley Park D-Day Exhibition
The Duchess Of Cambridge Visits Bletchley Park D-Day Exhibition

The Duchess of Cambridge stepped out on Tuesday morning in a recycled Alexandra Rich dress to visit Bletchley Park, in Buckinghamshire, as part of the 75th anniversary of D-Day at Normandy.

The site was where Alan Turning and other computer scientists worked to decipher the Axis powers' secret codes with the creation of the world's first electronic computer, Colossus, and was vital to Allied victory in the Second World War. The Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, is based on these events.

Interestingly, the site is of major significance for the duchess, whose grandmother worked at Bletchley Park during the war. "I have always been immensely proud of my grandmother, Valerie Glassborow, who worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War," Kate wrote for a book created by the UK's Signals Intelligence and Cyber Security Agency in 2016.

Kate honoured her grandmother during Tuesday's visit by wearing her brooch and visiting a brick inscribed with her grandmother's name.

"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," the mum-of-three continued. The duchess first visited the park five years prior to learn about her grandmother's work.

It's a busy day for the royal who will later make her way to Frogmore Cottage at Windsor Castle to meet her new nephew, Archie. The youngest royal was born last Monday at a private hospital in London.

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