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 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 ...

The queen’s private secretary, Martin Charteris, was told only that MI5 intended to interrogate Blunt due to his close ties with fellow spy Guy Burgess, who fled to the Soviet Union. In all like ...

Elizabeth’s private secretary at the time, Martin Charteris, and his deputy, Philip Moore, were the only people at the palace who knew about Blunt’s confession. “Charteris thought that 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 ...

In 1972, her private secretary, Martin Charteris, told MI5 chief Michael Hanley that “the queen did not know and he saw no advantage in telling her about it now; it would only add to her worries ...

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 ...