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.
Art historian Anthony Blunt was for decades Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, overseeing the official Royal Art Collection, and in 1964 admitted he had been a Soviet agent since the 1930s.
Good evening..." It was a scandal that took years to emerge. In 1964 Art historian Anthony Blunt, who worked at Buckingham Palace as Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, finally confessed that as a ...
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 ...
Art historian Anthony Blunt was for decades Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, overseeing the official Royal Art Collection, and in 1964 admitted he had been a Soviet agent since the 1930s.
Anthony Blunt served as the chief art curator to the royal family, surveying the queen’s pictures, overseeing the paintings in the royal collection and occasionally exhibiting her private ...
The Soviet flag hangs at half mast at the Russian Embassy in Washington on February 10, 1984, marking the death of Soviet Union President Yuri Andropov. Classified documents released Tuesday by ...
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 ...
Blunt, an art historian, worked at Buckingham Palace ... A passage about Queen Elizabeth II’s reaction after learning Anthony Blunt was a Soviet spy. PA Images via Getty Images Blunt’s role ...