Queen Elizabeth II was kept in the dark for nearly a decade about the full extent of the betrayal of one of her top courtiers, according to recently released official documents. In 1964, Sir Anthony ...

The Queen reportedly took the news "calmly and without surprise" when finally told, according to a personal manuscript letter from her then-private secretary, Sir Martin Charteris. Blunt had served as ...

Queen Elizabeth II was not officially informed for nearly a decade that Anthony Blunt was a Soviet spy, newly declassified documents reveal.

Queen Elizabeth II was kept in the dark for a long time about a major scandal during her reign. Newly released MI5 files reveal that, for nearly 10 years, the late monarch didn’t know that royal ...

Documents from the British secret service MI5 reveal that Anthony Blunt, an art historian and supervisor of the official Royal Art Collection, was actually a member of the notorious spy organisation ...

Documents newly declassified by MI5, Britain's internal intelligence agency, show the late Queen Elizabeth II was not ...

Sir Anthony Blunt, the Royal Family's picture surveyor and renowned art historian, finally admitted that he had been a Soviet ...

Queen Elizabeth II was not told for almost a decade that a long-serving royal art historian had confessed to being a Soviet spy, according to newly declassified documents. The files about Anthony ...

In 1972, her private secretary, Martin Charteris, told MI5 chief Michael Hanley that “the queen did not know and he saw no advantage in telling her about it now; it would only add to her worries and ...

Elizabeth’s private secretary at the time, Martin Charteris, and his deputy, Philip Moore, were the only people at the palace who knew about Blunt’s confession. “Charteris thought that the ...