Queen Elizabeth II was kept in the dark for a long time about a major scandal during her reign. Newly released MI5 files reveal that, for nearly 10 years, the late monarch didn’t know that royal ...

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

The Queen reportedly took the news "calmly and without surprise" when finally told, according to a personal manuscript letter from her then-private secretary, Sir Martin Charteris. Blunt had served as ...

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

QUEEN Elizabeth II was kept in the dark for a decade about a Russian spy who infiltrated her household and was one of her most senior advisers, according to newly released MI5 files. In 1964, Sir ...

Michael Hanley, who was head of MI5, said at the time that the queen's aide, Martin Charteris, reported that she took the news in stride and did not seem shocked. "She remembered that he [Blunt] had ...

By March 19, MI5 chief Michael Hanley caught wind of a "personal manuscript letter" from Sir Martin, which confirmed the Queen had been briefed: "Charteris wrote that he had spoken to the Queen about ...

Queen Elizabeth II was not told for almost a decade that a long-serving royal art historian had confessed to being a Soviet spy, according to newly declassified documents. The files about Anthony ...

The identity of a Russian spy among Queen Elizabeth II's courtiers was kept from the monarch for almost a decade, but she took the news with her typically calm demeanour ...