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 ...

In 1964, Sir Anthony Blunt, the surveyor of the late Queen’s pictures and distinguished art historian, finally confessed he had been a Soviet agent since the 1930s. He had been recruited when he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. He was recruited while studying at ...

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 ...

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.

FILE - Professor Anthony Blunt, former surveyor of the Queen's pictures, photographed at the Courtauld Institute with Queen Elizabeth II on Nov. 15, 1979. (PA via AP, File) FILE - Professor ...