LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II was not officially informed about the treachery of a senior palace courtier for nearly a decade, newly declassified documents reveal. Anthony Blunt served as the ...

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

Professor Anthony Blunt, former surveyor of the Queen's pictures, photographed at the Courtauld Institute with Queen Elizabeth II on Nov. 15, 1979. / AP ...

Professor Anthony Blunt, former surveyor of the Queen's pictures, photographed at the Courtauld Institute with Queen Elizabeth II on Nov. 15, 1979. Credit: AP.

Anthony Blunt, former surveyor of the Queen's pictures, photographed at the Courtauld Institute in 1970 with Queen Elizabeth II PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo Shocking new details have recently come to ...

Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t fully briefed on the espionage exploits of her art surveyor, Anthony Blunt, until 1973—a staggering nine years after his confession.The records, released by the ...

Queen kept in dark over palace traitor Anthony Blunt, declassified documents reveal. When the Queen was finally told the full story in the 1970s, she was characteristically unflappable - taking it ...

Queen Elizabeth II with Sir Anthony Blunt during an art exhibition in London in 1979. Then-MI5 Director General Michael Hanley noted that by November 1972, only Charteris and his deputy, Philip ...

The late Queen was not officially told that one of her senior courtiers was a Russian spy for almost a decade after he confessed, secret MI5 files reveal today.

QUEEN Elizabeth II was kept in the dark for a decade about a Russian spy who infiltrated her household and was one of her most senior advisers, according to newly released MI5 files. In 1964, Sir A… ...