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 ...

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 ...