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 informed for almost 10 years that a member of her staff had spied for the then-Soviet Union.

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Newly declassified British documents show that Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials didn’t want to add to her worries.

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time ... Blunt are among a trove from the intelligence agency MI5 released Tuesday by Britain’s National Archives.

Queen Elizabeth II wasn't told details of her long-time art ... Anthony Blunt are among a trove from the intelligence agency MI5 released Tuesday by Britain's National Archives.

Former aide of late Queen Elizabeth II, Anthony Blunt, worked as spy for the Russia for almost 10 years without the queen knowing about it.

Queen Elizabeth II was not told officially for nearly a decade that one of her most senior courtiers had admitted he was a Soviet spy, newly declassified British files revealed

Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser’s double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials didn’t want to add to her worries, newly declassified documents reveal.

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

He retained his position after the latter's death, when Elizabeth II ascended the throne. He was only caught by MI5 in 1964, after the denunciation of a member of the network: the American journalist Michael Straight. Anthony Blunt eventually handed over ...

Queen Elizabeth II was kept in the dark for nearly a decade about the full ... Despite passing vast amounts of secret intelligence to his KGB handlers during his time as a senior MI5 officer during World War II, Blunt was allowed to keep his position ...