{"id":2444447,"date":"2026-06-04T08:55:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2444447"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:55:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:55:46","slug":"prince-of-wales-alex-younger-embodied-very-best-of-secret-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-of-wales-alex-younger-embodied-very-best-of-secret-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince of Wales: Alex Younger embodied very best of Secret Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-test=\"article-body-text\">\n<p>The Prince of Wales has paid tribute to Sir Alex Younger, the former head of MI6 whom he said \u201cembodied the very best\u201d of the British secret services.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/prince-william\">The Prince<\/a>, who has close working links with the <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/espionage\">Secret Intelligence Service<\/a> and has undertaken periods of \u201cwork experience\u201d with them to prepare for his future role as King, issued a personal statement following the news of Sir Alex\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Alex, who was head of <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/mi6\">MI6<\/a> from 2014 to 2020, died on Wednesday from cancer at the age of 62.<\/p>\n<p>The Prince said: \u201cI was saddened to hear of the death of Alex Younger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe embodied the very best of what the Secret Intelligence Service stands for \u2013 integrity, courage, and an unwavering commitment to protecting this country and its people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBritain has lost an exceptional public servant. My thoughts are with Lady Younger and their family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The message, shared through Kensington Palace\u2019s social media, was signed \u201cW\u201d for William, suggesting that it was personal rather than from aides.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.telegraph.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prince of Wales has paid tribute to Sir Alex Younger, the former head of MI6 whom he said \u201cembodied the very best\u201d of the British secret services. The Prince, who has close working links with the Secret Intelligence Service and has undertaken periods of \u201cwork experience\u201d with them to prepare for his future role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2444448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[479868,21738,23068,22769,344742,356051,382398],"class_list":["post-2444447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-mi6-sis","tag-news","tag-prince-william","tag-royal-family","tag-standard","tag-uk-news","tag-us-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Prince-of-Wales-Alex-Younger-embodied-very-best-of-Secret.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444449,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444447\/revisions\/2444449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2444448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}