Queen Elizabeth ‘kept in dark’ over palace spy as treachery hidden for almost a decade

Queen Elizabeth II was kept in the dark for nearly a decade about the full extent of the betrayal of one of her top courtiers, according to recently released official documents. In 1964, 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.
He was recruited as a young don at Cambridge into one of the most infamous spy rings of the 20th century. Despite passing vast amounts of secret intelligence […]
Queen Elizabeth ‘kept in dark’ over palace spy as treachery hidden for almost a decade