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Queen kept in the dark over palace spy as treachery hidden for almost a decade
Sir Anthony Blunt, the Royal Family's picture surveyor and renowned art historian, finally admitted that he had been a Soviet ...
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Queen was not told of key details regarding Soviet spy in royal circles until nine years after his confession
The Queen reportedly took the news "calmly and without surprise" when finally told, according to a personal manuscript letter from her then-private secretary, Sir Martin Charteris. Blunt had ...
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Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told about Soviet spy in her palace for nearly 10 years, MI5 files reveal
Elizabeth’s private secretary at the time, Martin Charteris, and his deputy, Philip Moore, were the only people at the palace who knew about Blunt’s confession. “Charteris thought that the ...
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Queen Elizabeth II was kept in the dark for years about a Soviet spy in the palace
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. In all like ...
CBS News16d
Declassified files reveal new details about notorious British spies — and how Queen Elizabeth II was kept in the dark
In 1972, her private secretary, Martin Charteris, told MI5 chief Michael Hanley that "the queen did not know and he saw no advantage in telling her about it now; it would only add to her worries ...
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How Queen was kept in dark about spy for nearly a decade
Newly disclosed correspondence reveals a palace strategy to shield the Queen from the full truth, spearheaded by her private secretary, Sir Martin Charteris. In November 1972, MI5 Director-General ...
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Staff member of British queen was a Russian spy
Documents from the British secret service MI5 reveal that Anthony Blunt, an art historian and supervisor of the official Royal Art Collection, was actually a member of the notorious spy organisation ...
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Queen Elizabeth 'kept in the dark' over palace spy as treachery hidden for almost a decade
By March 19, MI5 chief Michael Hanley caught wind of a "personal manuscript letter" from Sir Martin, which confirmed the Queen had been briefed: "Charteris wrote that he had spoken to the Queen ...