Anthony Blunt, who worked at Buckingham Palace as Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, was secretly a Soviet spy during WWII.
For a decade, Queen Elizabeth II lived without knowing that her own art advisor, Anthony Blunt, a trusted man in charge of overseeing the invaluable Royal Collection, was living a double life as a Soviet agent.
Documents newly declassified by MI5, Britain's internal intelligence agency, show the late Queen Elizabeth II was not informed for almost 10 years that a member of her staff had spied for the then-Soviet Union.
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.
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time ... as a senior MI5 officer during World War II, he had passed secret information to Soviet agents. In one of the newly released files, an MI5 officer notes that Blunt said he ...
LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of ... as a senior MI5 officer during World War II, he had passed secret information to Soviet agents. In one of the newly released files ...
William Mullins and his family boarded the Mayflower at Rotherhithe on the south bank of the Thames in east London in July 1620 along with some 60 fellow pilgrims. The steps down to the jetty used by the Pilgrims are still there beside what is now the Mayflower pub.
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