Newly-declassified files show the Queen was only told the full story a decade after the Cambridge don and royal courtier confessed he was a KGB spy.

Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Anthony Blunt, is pictured with a painting by Velazquez, in 1962 Despite Blunt's prominent position, few outside MI5 were told of this confession. The home ...

The MI5 files, released to the National Archives, reportedly contain Blunt’s full confession ... Elizabeth II’s reaction after learning Anthony Blunt was a Soviet spy. PA Images via Getty ...

Newly released MI5 documents have revealed that Queen Elizabeth II was not formally briefed about the full extent of royal art surveyor Anthony ... Blunt continued in his royal role after his ...

The newly declassified papers tell how the Queen was left in the dark about the scale of the treachery of Anthony Blunt ... was also not informed of Blunt’s confession. It was kept for years ...

Documents reveal how the monarch was not told the full story about Anthony Blunt, a Soviet mole inside MI5 and member of the ...

Blunt, then known as Sir Anthony, confessed he had been recruited ... was also not informed of Blunt’s 1964 confession. Blunt was finally unmasked by prime minister Margaret Thatcher in a ...

Art historian Anthony Blunt was for decades Surveyor of the ... and promised him immunity from prosecution. His full confession is included for the first time in these files.

Philby’s fellow Soviet agent Anthony Blunt, surveyor of the Queen ... minutes while I wrestle with my conscience.” As Blunt’s confession unfolded, his nervousness intensified with his ...

Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t fully briefed on the espionage exploits of her art surveyor, Anthony Blunt, until 1973—a staggering nine years after his confession. The records, released by the ...