Newly-declassified files show the Queen was only told the full story a decade after royal courtier confessed to spying for ...

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

The identity of a Russian spy among Queen Elizabeth II's courtiers was kept from the monarch for almost a decade, but she ...

The newly declassified papers tell how the Queen was left in the dark about the scale of the treachery of Anthony Blunt. He was allowed to continue in his role as the Surveyor of the Queen’s ...

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 ... historian Chris Smith, who authored a biography of Cambridge Five spy John Cairncross, told NBC News. “To have informed Her Majesty ...

Newly declassified British documents show that Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser's double ...

In 1964, Sir Anthony Blunt, the surveyor of the Queen ... Miranda Carter, who wrote a 2001 biography of Blunt, said she believed the Queen would have been told informally some time after 1965.

The files about royal art historian Anthony Blunt are among a trove from the intelligence agency MI5 released Tuesday by Britain's National Archives. They shed new light on a spy ring linked to ...