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 her ...

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.

Notorious double agent Anthony Blunt feared that his KGB handler would turn violent when he refused to join his fellow spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean and flee to Russia, according to newly ...

Papers released by MI5 show that although Blunt confessed to them he had spied for the Russians during World War Two, the late queen herself was not officially told for nearly nine years.

In 1964, Sir Anthony Blunt, the surveyor of the late ... in the 1930s before becoming an art historian. BRITISH diplomat Guy Burgess started supplying information to Russia in 1936 during his ...

The files confirm that Philby recruited Donald Maclean in 1934, and how Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and the fifth spy, John Cairncross, agreed to work for Russian intelligence soon afterwards.

A closer look at recently declassified MI5 files on the intelligence failure surrounding the five "Cambrdige spies" ...

Will we ever tire of the Cambridge spies? Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Burgess and Maclean – and to a lesser extent John ...

(PA via AP, File) FILE - clockwise from top left, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess (who died in Moscow in 1963), Donald MacLean and Kim Philby, who tipped off Burgess and MacLean in 1951 forcing them to ...