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 having been recruited, when he was ...

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

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 ...

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

Yet in 1964 Blunt, then known as Sir Anthony, confessed he had been recruited as a Soviet agent in the 1930s when he was a young Cambridge don. The senior courtier would go on to be considered the ...

Queen Elizabeth II was left in the dark for almost a decade over the full scale of the treachery of one of her most senior courtiers, according to newly-released official files. In 1964, Sir ...