Moreover, Blunt remained in post and was even knighted after his confession ... it would only make her more worried.’ Russian spy Anthony Blunt eventually died in 1983 at the age of 75.

The members of the ring were Donald Maclean (1913 - 1983), Guy Burgess (1911 - 1963), Harold 'Kim' Philby (1912 - 1988) and Anthony Blunt (1907 ... He was knighted in 1956.

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.