Queen Elizabeth II was not officially informed for nearly a decade that Anthony Blunt was a Soviet spy, newly declassified ...

Anthony Blunt, who worked at Buckingham Palace as Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, was secretly a Soviet spy during WWII.

Documents newly declassified by MI5, Britain's internal intelligence agency, show the late Queen Elizabeth II was not ...

Queen Elizabeth II wasn't told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials ...

In February 1973, then-Prime Minister Edward Heath braced for a storm of bad press over the Blunt scandal, instructing Sir Martin Charteris, the Queen's private secretary, to give her the heads up.

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

Concerns over Blunt were discussed within the Security Service for years, with documents revealing that in November 1972 the director-general of MI5 had urged Sir Martin Charteris, the Queen’s ...

Prime Minister Edward Heath had instructed the Queen’s private secretary, Sir Martin Charteris, to inform the monarch over concerns that journalists were about to break the story. On March 19 ...

In February 1973, prime minister Edward Heath ordered preparations to be put in place for dealing with the expected torrent of negative publicity, including instructions to Sir Martin Charteris ...

In February 1973, prime minister Edward Heath ordered preparations to be put in place for dealing with the expected torrent of negative publicity, including instructions to Sir Martin Charteris, the ...