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.

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 ...

Elizabeth told Charteris that she recalled ... A passport photo of Captain Anthony Blunt, taken during WW2 when he was an officer in the Security Service The National Archives During the Second ...

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 ...