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The duchess tried her hand at being a codebreaker during the visit
The Duchess of Cambridge has arrived at the newly restored Bletchley Park where she will meet a codebreaker who worked with her grandmother.
The home of the Government Code and Cypher School in Buckinghamshire cost £8m to restore and was mostly funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The duchess will officially open the restored centre later.
Her paternal grandmother, Valerie Glassborow, worked at Bletchley's Hut 16.
Former colleague Lady Marion Body is due to meet the royal later.
The duchess' visit marks the completion of a project to return the buildings to their World War Two appearance and create new visitor facilities.
- Hut 6 - where the mechanisation of codebreaking started - went from being a cottage industry to an industrial process
- Hut 3 was where the translation and intelligence work on the messages happened
- Hut 11 housed Bombe devices
- Block C - once housed a card index system which recorded every message that came into Bletchley Park. It is now a visitor exhibition centre and cafe
Source: Bletchley Park Trust
During the tour, she tried her hand at being a codebreaker, sitting at a desk and attempting to intercept radio messages.
Putting on a pair of headphones, and turning the dial in front of her, she managed to decode a message.
Bletchley twinsMs Glassborow, who married the duchess' grandfather Peter Middleton, was a civilian staff member at the centre where her twin sister Mary was also employed.
Documents dated October 1944 show she was probably a duty officer and worked in Hut 16, now restored Hut 6, where it is thought she chose which intercept stations staff should listen to.
The success of the centre's codebreakers in breaking the German cypher systems Enigma and Lorenz, are credited with shortening the war by two years.
But the site fell into near-dereliction after the war.
Plans for complete restoration began at the end of 2011 when the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded the trust a £5m grant and work began in 2012.
Veteran Lady Marion recalls working with the twin sisters on 15 August 1945 when they heard that the war had ended.
The three were on shift when their superior officer told them a signal had been intercepted between Tokyo and Geneva that the Japanese were surrendering.
"We just sat there in complete silence," she said.
"Commander Williams then just told us to get on with our work and we all laughed.
"It's something I could never tell anybody about because we were sworn to secrecy but it was a great moment to feel you were perhaps among the first people who knew the war was at last over."
She will be among other former codebreakers set to meet the duchess, who will also be planting a tree to commemorate the visit.
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How Bletchley Park looks after the restoration
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