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 ...

Newly-declassified files show the Queen was only told the full story a decade after the Cambridge don and royal courtier confessed he was a KGB spy.

For a decade, Queen Elizabeth II lived without knowing that her own art advisor, Anthony Blunt, a trusted man in charge of overseeing the invaluable Royal Collection, was living a double life as a ...

Queen Elizabeth ... II was left in the dark for almost a decade over the full scale of the treachery of one of her most senior courtiers, according to newly-released official files. In 1964, Sir ...

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 the Surveyor of the Queen’s ...

Papers released by MI5 show that although Blunt confessed to them he had spied for the Russians during World War Two, the late queen herself was not officially told for nearly nine years.

Queen Elizabeth II wasn't told details of her long-time ... The files about royal art historian Anthony Blunt are among a trove from the intelligence agency MI5 released Tuesday by Britain's ...

A passage about Queen Elizabeth II’s reaction after learning Anthony Blunt was a Soviet spy. PA Images via Getty Images Blunt’s role as a spy was publicly exposed by Prime Minister Margaret ...

Anthony Blunt after he was publicly unmasked as a ... as Blunt’s position was anyway drawing to a close. Queen Elizabeth II with Sir Martin Charteris who told her the full story of Blunt ...

FILE - Professor Anthony Blunt, former surveyor of the Queen's pictures, photographed at the Courtauld Institute with Queen Elizabeth II on Nov. 15, 1979. (PA via AP, File) FILE - Professor ...