Art historian Anthony Blunt was for decades Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, overseeing the official Royal Art Collection, and in 1964 admitted he had been a Soviet agent since t
New archival material released in the UK have revealed some unexpected details about one of the biggest spy scandals connected to the British Royal Family. Files newly released by the UK spy agency MI5 show that Queen Elizabeth the Second wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser Sir
Queen Elizabeth II was not officially informed for nearly a decade that Anthony Blunt was a Soviet spy, newly declassified documents reveal.
The files about royal art historian Anthony Blunt are among a trove from the intelligence agency ... whose members spilled secrets to the Soviet Union from the heart of the U.K. intelligence establishment. Blunt, who worked at Buckingham Palace as Surveyor ...
Documents newly declassified by MI5, Britain's internal intelligence agency, show the late Queen Elizabeth II was not informed for almost 10 years that a member of her staff had spied for the then-Soviet Union.
According to newly released MI5 files, art historian Anthony Blunt was Surveyor of the ... Back in 1964, he admitted to spying for the Soviet Union as part of the notorious Cambridge Five spy ...
The files about royal art historian Anthony Blunt are among a trove from the ... whose members spilled secrets to the Soviet Union from the heart of the U.K. intelligence establishment.
MI5 documents reveal her private secretary ‘saw no advantage in telling her’ about treachery of Buckingham Palace art expert
Documents reveal how the monarch was not told the full story about Anthony Blunt, a Soviet mole inside MI5 and member of the Cambridge spy ring, until nearly a decade after his confession
Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials didn’t want to add to her worries, newly declassified documents reveal.