HRH The Duchess of Cambridge Visit to Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2014

⏱️ 6 minutes

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May 2014

The Duchess of Cambridge will visit Bletchley Park, on Wednesday 18 June 2014 to mark the completion of the year-long restoration project, which has restored the site to its World War Two appearance.

Her Royal Highness will view the restored location, tour the WW2 Codebreaking Huts and will hear about the achievements of the Codebreakers whose work is said to have helped shorten the war by two years.

During the visit, Her Royal Highness will meet Codebreaker veterans who worked at the Government Code and Cypher School during WW2, where encrypted messages sent by the Navy, Army and Air Forces of Germany and its allies were decrypted, translated and analysed for vital intelligence.

In our next monthly episode we will take you inside Huts 3 and 6 and the new Block C Visitor Centre with the first people to see them restored to their wartime glory; the Veterans themselves. This recording gives you a taste of some of the reactions at that 1st VIP Preview.

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0:00.0	What did you think when you saw yourself for the first time in it?
0:16.0	It was interesting because it was a lot better than I thought it would be really crisp and clear. I've been here before and I've never heard the story of what happened here summed up quite so well as that video.
0:25.6	It's quite a succinct and easy way of understanding.
0:27.6	And I think it really gives you a good idea of the impact that Bexley Park had on the wall.
0:46.3	I've been here on a visit to the newly refurbished Hutt 6 and Hutt 3, and I think they're superb. They really captured the atmosphere.
0:49.3	You walk from room to room in the same dim light that they had to work from.
0:54.7	You must remember, everybody smoked, and the windows didn't open,
0:58.7	because it had the blast walls.
1:00.9	And so it must have been a fog.
1:03.8	I think the reproduction of it is nothing short of brilliant.
1:07.9	I went into the mansion, the offices, so again the only word I can think of is
1:14.6	atmospheric. They recapture the period. Everything seems to be of my days in the outfit. So I think all
1:23.5	in all, full marks Leicesterly Park.
1:30.3	How's it feel to see yourself? It's so brilliant and when we were doing it was so atmospheric and to be here with the doors shut.
1:35.3	It was magical and I'm glad it's translated to scream.
1:37.3	My dad, when we told him we were coming today and we were bringing the children and sort of said,
1:41.3	I don't think there's going to be an awful lot to interest them.
1:43.3	And I sort of said, well, I think you might be surprised.
1:46.0	They really do get tasteful because.
1:47.0	I've given them a very basic outline of what went on.
1:50.0	But this just, it brings it to life and it really is something pretty special.
1:54.0	Today signifies the ability to see real tangible difference on site of
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