Declassified documents confirm that the late Queen Elizabeth II of England was not informed until many years later that she had a KGB spy amongst her members of staff. She didn't like him anyway.

Declassified documents confirm that the late Queen Elizabeth II of England was not informed until many years later that she had a KGB spy amongst her members of staff. She didn't like him anyway. Secrecy is the art of espionage.

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.

A trove of intelligence files sheds new light on an espionage ring linked to Cambridge University whose members spilled secrets to the Soviet Union.

Queen Elizabeth II was kept in the dark about her art advisor being a Russian spy to avoid adding to her worries. Blunt confessed to spying for the So

The identity of a Russian spy among Queen Elizabeth II's courtiers was kept from the monarch for almost a decade, but she took the news with her typically calm demeanour

QUEEN ELIZABETH II was left in the dark for almost a decade over the full scale of the actions of one of her most senior courtiers, according to newly released official files. In 1964, Sir Anthony Blunt, the surveyor of the Queen’s pictures and distinguished art historian, finally confessed he had been a Soviet agent since the 1930s.

Newly declassified files reveal the late Queen's very unexpected reaction to the art historian's shocking secret.

LONDON — (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long ... he had passed secret information to Russia’s KGB spy agency. In one of the newly released files, an MI5 officer ...

Queen Elizabeth II was left in the dark for almost a decade ... Blunt had passed vast quantities of secret intelligence to his KGB handlers but was nevertheless allowed to maintain his position ...

Newly-declassified files show the Queen was only told the full story a decade after royal courtier confessed to spying for the KGB.

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time ... In it, Philby admitted he had betrayed Konstantin Volkov, a KGB officer who tried to defect to the West in 1945 ...