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Charles was given the inside track on the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal when he paid a hush-hush visit to MI5 HQ on Tuesday. Charles takes a close interest in the work of the British secret services. In 2012, he became the first royal patron of all three intelligence agencies — MI5, MI6 and GCHQ — and presented what have become annual awards for spooks, known as the Prince of Wales’s Intelligence Community Awards.