Prince William’s top-secret visit just days before Princess Kate’s first public appearance
The meeting was made known in the Court Circular, a list of official royal engagements from the previous day.
Prince William held a top-secret meeting shortly before Princess Kate stepped back into the public spotlight for the first time since announcing her cancer diagnosis.
Kates’s appearance at Trooping the Colour in June 2024 was her first public engagement since sharing the news that she was undergoing preventative treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer in March.
In the days before her brave outing at the event, her husband William held a hush-hush meeting with MI6, the British Intelligence Service, which wasn’t publicised in advance.
The meeting was made known in the Court Circular, a list of official royal engagements from the previous day.
The entry for the heir to throne’s meeting was pretty low on detail, reading simply: “The Prince of Wales this afternoon visited the Secret Intelligence Service”.
William has visited the Secret Service, which protects the UK from risks abroad, on several occasions, and even spent three weeks working with MI5, MI6 and GCHQ to see how the UK’s security and intelligence agencies work back in 2019.
The royal spent his first week in spy work at MI6, also known as SIS, before working at the Security Service MI5 where he saw counter-terrorism investigations on British soil.
His final week was spent at GCHQ, in Cheltenham, which monitors communications for potential security threats in the UK.
William later said of his experience that: “Spending time inside our security and intelligence agencies, understanding more about the vital contribution they make to our national security, was a truly humbling experience.
