Mystery surrounds Prince William after he makes ‘secret visit’ to MI6

The Prince of Wales met with the Secret Intelligence Service on Thursday

Prince William visited MI6 HQ in London (Image: Getty)

Mystery surrounds Prince William after he made a “secret visit” to MI6 yesterday.

The Prince of Wales met with the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, which protects the UK from risks abroad, on Thursday afternoon.

The visit was not announced in advance and only appeared today in the Court Circular, the daily list of official royal engagements, which is published the next day.

The entry in the Court Circular read simply “The Prince of Wales this afternoon visited the Secret Intelligence Service” with no location or additional details given.

It is not known whether the future King met MI6 boss Sir Richard Moore, codenamed “C” and Kensington Palace delined to provide further information on the visit.

MI6’s headquarters in London (Image: Getty)

William went to the MI6 headquarters in London with the now-Princess of Wales in 2012 and made a similar visit in 2022, just hours before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

No further details about either visit, including who he met and what was discussed, were revealed either.

In 2019, he spent three weeks working with MI5, MI6 and GCHQ to learn how the UK’s security and intelligence agencies work

“These agencies are full of people from everyday backgrounds doing the most extraordinary work to keep us safe,” he said at the time. “They work in secret, often not even able to tell their family and friends about the work they do or the stresses they face.”

In March, MI6 launched a recruitment drive to hire more spies from black and Asian backgrounds.

The first black spy to give a live broadcast interview told BBC Radio 1Xtra that working for MI6 was more exciting than James Bond the fictional MI6 spy who serves king and country.

Express.co.uk has contacted Kensington Palace for further information.