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.

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.

Newly released MI5 files reveal that, for nearly 10 years, the late monarch didn’t know that royal household member Anthony Blunt was actually a Soviet double agent. According to the BBC ...

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 ...

The members of the ring were Donald Maclean (1913 - 1983), Guy Burgess (1911 - 1963), Harold 'Kim' Philby (1912 - 1988) and Anthony Blunt (1907 - 1983). Several other people have been suggested as ...

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 ...