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Kate Middleton pays tribute to Bletchley Park grandmother with “Codebreakers” poppy brooch on Remembrance Sunday
“Two women work in hut 6 at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, during the Second World War. Cryptographers deciphered top-secret military communiques between Hitler and his armed forces, which ultimately aided the victory of the Allied forces”
Then a young, unmarried woman, Valerie Glassborow worked in Hut 16 on the estate, which is no longer standing. Many of her colleagues were ‘ordinary’ middle-class women like herself, whose work, kept secret for almost half a century, helped change the course of the war.
Miss Glassborow married Peter Francis Middleton in 1946 in the village of Adel, Yorkshire. The couple went on to have four sons, Michael, Richard, Simon and Nicholas in quick succession. Michael, the eldest, is the father of the Duchess of Cambridge and is known to have been close to his mother. Miss Glassborow died in 2006, without ever speaking publicly of her wartime service.
