ANTHONY BLUNT: His Lives. By Miranda Carter. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30. IMAGINE this scenario: An Englishman, a kinsman of the royal family, betrays his nation and its allies by giving top ...

For a first book, Anthony Blunt: His Lives is astonishingly assured and accomplished. I haven't enjoyed a biography so much since Judith Thurman's Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette.

In her biography of Blunt, Anthony Blunt: His Lives, Miranda Carter notes that in 1963, the art historian may have stepped out of his semi-retirement to help the royal family out of a bind.

Anthony Blunt confessed in 1964 to spying for the Soviet Union as part of the notorious Cambridge Five spy ring during World War II.

Sir Anthony Blunt, world- renowned art expert, academic, lecturer and author, adviser to... Traitor with a masterly eye / A vital and detailed biography of art expert and Cold War spy Sir Anthony ...

LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II was not officially informed about the treachery of a senior palace courtier for nearly a decade, newly declassified documents reveal. Anthony Blunt served as the ...

In 1964, Sir Anthony Blunt, the royal family's picture surveyor and renowned art historian, finally admitted that he had been a Soviet agent since the 1930s. The Mirror US.

ANTHONY BLUNT: His Lives Miranda Carter, . . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30 (592pp) ISBN 978-0-374-10531-0. This engaging and important biography examines the many masks of the infamous Anthony ...