Queen Elizabeth II was kept in the dark for nearly a decade over the fact that one of her most senior courtiers was a notorious double agent, according to newly-released intelligence files.
Sir Anthony Blunt, the surveyor of the Queen's pictures, finally confessed in 1964 that he had been a Russian spy since the 1930s, when he was recruited into the notorious Cambridge spy ring. The group, which included Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, "Kim" Philby and Anthony Blunt, were recruited […]
Queen Elizabeth ‘kept in the dark’ over Palace traitor spying for Russia