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Kate tries code-breaking at restored WWII center

By Washington Examiner
Published June 18, 2014 1:29pm ET
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Kate tries code-breaking at restored WWII center
Britain's Kate, Duchess of Cambridge arrives for a visit at Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes, England, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. The Duchess will view the restored location, tour the WWII Codebreaking Huts and will hear about the achievements of the Codebreakers whose work is said to have helped shorten the World War II by two years. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) | Lefteris Pitarakis

LONDON (AP) — The Duchess of Cambridge has tried her hand at code-breaking as she opened a museum at Bletchley Park, Britain’s famed World War II deciphering center.

Kate sat at a desk and succeeded in decoding a Morse code message as she toured the center, which has been restored with an 8 million-pound ($13.6 million) lottery fund.

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