1 day ago · Queen Elizabeth was left in the dark for almost a decade over the full scale of the treachery of her courtier Anthony Blunt, according to secret service files (Press Association via AP Images) LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II had a spy in her midst but was not officially informed by the British secret service for almost a decade.

Nov 17, 2019 · Anthony Blunt was the art curator for Queen Elizabeth & the royal family. Later, he was discovered as a Russian spy. Here, how Blunt's true story compares to The Crown season 3's...

Queen Elizabeth II with Sir Anthony Blunt during an art exhibition in London in 1979. PA via Getty Images file. Then-MI5 Director General Michael Hanley noted that by November 1972, only Charteris ...

Jan 15, 2025 · 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. Professor Anthony Blunt, former surveyor of the Queen’s pictures, photographed at the Courtauld Institute with Queen Elizabeth II on Nov. 15, 1979.

Jan 14, 2025 · Newly released MI5 files reveal that, for nearly 10 years, the late monarch didn’t know that royal household member Anthony Blunt was actually a Soviet double agent. According to the BBC,...

Jan 14, 2025 · Queen Elizabeth II was kept in the dark for nearly a decade about the full extent of the betrayal of one of her top courtiers, according to recently released official documents. In 1964, Sir Anthony Blunt, the royal family's picture surveyor and renowned art historian, finally admitted that he had been a Soviet agent since the 1930s.

Jan 14, 2025 · Queen Elizabeth reportedly had a very unexpected reaction to finding out that her art historian, royal courtier Sir Anthony Blunt, was a Soviet spy for Russia

Jan 14, 2025 · Blunt, who worked at Buckingham Palace as Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, was under suspicion for years before he finally confessed in 1964 that, as a senior MI5 officer during World War II,...

Jan 14, 2025 · In 1964, Sir Anthony Blunt, the surveyor of the Queen’s pictures and distinguished art historian, finally confessed he had been a Soviet agent since the 1930s having been recruited, when he was a young don at Cambridge, into one of …

Jan 14, 2025 · London: 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. The files about royal art historian Anthony Blunt are among a trove from the intelligence agency MI5 released by Britain’s National Archives.