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.

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 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 ...

They shed new light on a spy ring linked to Cambridge University in the 1930s, whose members spilled secrets to the Soviet Union from the heart of the U.K. intelligence establishment.

Documents newly declassified by MI5, ... 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. ...

SPY chiefs probed a suspected “Russian double agent” at the heart of MI6 in a 20-year global operation, it has been revealed.

Blunt, who worked at Buckingham Palace as Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, was under suspicion for years before he finally confessed in 1964 that, as a senior MI5 officer during World War II ...

Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told about Soviet spy in her palace, declassified MI5 files show When the government decided to tell the monarch in 1973, “she took it all very calmly and without ...

Queen Elizabeth II wasn't told about Soviet spy in her palace, declassified MI5 files show Professor Anthony Blunt, former surveyor of the Queen's pictures, photographed at the Courtauld Institute ...

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 ...

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 ...