Queen Elizabeth II was not officially informed for nearly a decade that Anthony Blunt was a Soviet spy, newly declassified documents reveal.

Queen Elizabeth II was kept in the dark for a long time about a major scandal during her reign. Newly released MI5 files reveal that, for nearly 10 years, the late monarch didn’t know that royal household member Anthony Blunt was actually a Soviet double 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.

Queen Elizabeth II was not officially informed for almost a decade that one of her most senior courtiers had confessed to being a Soviet spy, according to newly released MI5 files.

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 worr

London: Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of ... as a senior MI5 officer during World War II, he had passed secret information to Russia’s KGB spy agency. In one of the newly released ...

LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II wasn't told details of her ... as a senior MI5 officer during World War II, he had passed secret information to Soviet agents. In one of the newly released files ...

(PA via AP, File) LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details ... as a senior MI5 officer during World War II, he had passed secret information to Soviet agents.

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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.

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