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 files about royal art historian Anthony Blunt are among a trove from the intelligence agency MI5 released Tuesday by Britain's National Archives. They shed new light on a spy ring linked to ...

LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her longtime art adviser’s double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials didn’t want to add to her worries, newly declassified ...

Anthony Blunt after he was publicly unmasked as a Soviet ... to inform the monarch. On March 19, MI5 director general Michael Hanley reported that the cabinet secretary Sir Burke Trend had shown ...

Anthony Blunt, who worked at Buckingham Palace as Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, was secretly a Soviet spy during WWII.

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 ...

MI5 reveals confessions of three members of infamous Cambridge Five spy ring as tranche of documents released into National Archives ...

The late Queen was not formally told of the full scale of Cambridge spy Anthony Blunt’s treachery for almost a decade, according to newly published MI5 documents. A distinguished art historian ...

Getty Images Anthony Blunt, is pictured with a painting by Velazquez, in 1962 Despite Blunt's prominent position, few outside MI5 were told of this confession. The home secretary and his most ...

Recommended MI5 ‘missed chance to expose Soviet spy ... Philby’s fellow Soviet agent Anthony Blunt, surveyor of the Queen’s pictures, also received favourable treatment.

secret MI5 files reveal today. The newly declassified papers tell how the Queen was left in the dark about the scale of the treachery of Anthony Blunt. He was allowed to continue in his role as th ...

More than 100 Security Service (MI5) files have been released by the National Archives, showing the confessions of double agents from Cambridge. The Cambridge Five consisted of Harold ‘Kim’ Philby, ...