The movie “The Imitation Game” is not only generating so much oscar buzz but is also getting a private screening from the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton. The new york post report that the reason is because of her family connection to the World War II code-breaking center where the movie is set.
The website further reports that the Duchess’ paternal grandmother, Valerie Glassborow, in 1944 worked at the famous “spy school” Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, the central site of the Government Code and Cypher School, which penetrated the secret communications of the Germans and their allies.
The work done there is credited with shortening WWII by at least two years, and Glassborow was reportedly a “duty officer.”
The upcoming Weinstein Co. movie, which opens Nov. 21, is about Alan Turing, the pioneering mathematician and computer scientist who played a key role in decrypting German codes at Bletchley Park.
We’re told Harvey Weinstein is working on setting up a private screening of the movie, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, for the entire Middleton family. Now-pregnant Kate visited Bletchley in June.
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