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.

Suspicion first fell on Blunt in 1951, after when his fellow spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean fled to the Soviet Union. He had been a close friend of Burgess since their time at Cambridge ...

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.

Queen Elizabeth II wasn't told about Soviet spy in her palace, declassified MI5 files show Professor Anthony Blunt, former surveyor of the Queen's pictures, photographed at the Courtauld Institute ...

SPY chiefs probed a suspected “Russian double agent” at the heart of MI6 in a 20-year global operation, it has been revealed.

Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told about Soviet spy in her palace, declassified MI5 files show When the government decided to tell the monarch in 1973, “she took it all very calmly and without ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — 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 ...

Queen Elizabeth II wasn't told about Soviet spy in her palace, declassified MI5 files show. ... whose members spilled secrets to the Soviet Union from the heart of the U.K. intelligence establishment.

They shed new light on a spy ring linked to Cambridge University in the 1930s, whose members spilled secrets to the Soviet Union from the heart of the U.K. intelligence establishment. Recommended ...

Blunt, who worked at Buckingham Palace as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, was under suspicion for years before he finally confessed in 1964 that, as a senior MI5 officer during World War II, he ...

Queen Elizabeth II wasn't told about Soviet spy in her palace, declassified MI5 files show. ... whose members spilled secrets to the Soviet Union from the heart of the U.K. intelligence establishment.