Anthony Blunt, who worked at Buckingham Palace as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, was secretly a Soviet spy during WWII.

Queen wasn´t told details of her long-time art adviser because palace officials didn´t want to add to her worries.

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 documents reveal. The files about royal art historian Anthony Blunt are among a trove from the intelligence agency MI5 released Tuesday by Britain’s […]

Queen Elizabeth II was not told about a Russian spy who had been given a senior position in her household for almost a decade after he was unmasked, newly declassified intelligence files reveal.

Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy, newly declassified documents reveal.

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 worries.