Newly declassified British documents show that 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 ...

The secret files record how the country's security services only told her about the infamous Cambridge Five member and art historian, Anthony Blunt, who was employed as the monarch's surveyor of ...

Queen Elizabeth II was not officially informed for nearly a decade that Anthony Blunt was a Soviet spy, newly declassified documents reveal.

Papers released by MI5 show that although Blunt confessed to them he had spied for the Russians during World War Two, the ...

New archival material released in the UK have revealed some unexpected details about one of the biggest spy scandals ...

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 ...

For decades, one question has lingered – when was the Queen told about Blunt’s betrayal? New evidence offers some answers ...

A closer look at recently declassified MI5 files on the intelligence failure surrounding the five "Cambrdige spies" ...

In 1964, Sir Anthony Blunt, the surveyor of the late Queen’s pictures and distinguished art historian, finally confessed he had been a Soviet agent since the 1930s. He had been recruited when he ...

The identity of a Russian spy among Queen Elizabeth II's courtiers was kept from the monarch for almost a decade, but she took the news with her typically calm demeanour ...

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 ...