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.
Sir Anthony Blunt, the Royal Family's picture surveyor and renowned art historian, finally admitted that he had been a Soviet ...
In 1964, Sir Anthony Blunt, the surveyor of the late ... confronted him with testimony from Michael Straight, a young American Blunt had recruited to work for the Russians in the 1930s.
Yet in 1964 Blunt, then known as Sir Anthony, confessed he had been recruited as a Soviet agent in the 1930s when he was a young Cambridge don. The senior courtier would go on to be considered the ...
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 ...
Not only was he prestigious, he was also immensely kind to young people. He put opportunities in their way." But speaking at the time the ITN interview with Anthony Blunt was broadcast ...
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. When he was a young don at Cambridge ...