Anthony Blunt - Wikipedia
Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), [4] styled Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO from 1956 until November 1979, was a leading British art historian and Soviet spy. Blunt was a professor of art history at the University of London, the director of the Courtauld Institute of Art and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures.
Late queen was not officially told Anthony Blunt was Soviet spy …
1 day ago · Art historian Anthony Blunt was for decades Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, overseeing the official Royal Art Collection, and in 1964 admitted he had been a Soviet agent since the 1930s.
Queen Elizabeth II wasn't told Anthony Blunt was a Soviet spy for …
1 day ago · Anthony Blunt served as the chief art curator to the royal family, surveying the queen’s pictures, overseeing the paintings in the royal collection and occasionally exhibiting her private ...
Queen Elizabeth II wasn't told about Soviet spy in her palace ...
1 day ago · The files about royal art historian Anthony Blunt are among a trove from the intelligence agency MI5 released Tuesday by Britain’s National Archives. 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.
Anthony Blunt | Surveyor of Queen’s Pictures, MI5 Agent, …
Dec 11, 2024 · Anthony Blunt (born Sept. 26, 1907, Bournemouth, Hampshire, Eng.—died March 26, 1983, London) was a British art historian who late in his life was revealed to have been a Soviet spy.
True Story of Anthony Blunt, Queen Elizabeth's Art Curator
Nov 17, 2019 · Anthony Blunt was the art curator for Queen Elizabeth & the royal family. Later, he was discovered as a Russian spy. Here, how Blunt's true story compares to The Crown season 3's...
Queen kept in dark over palace traitor Anthony Blunt, declassified ...
2 days ago · The Queen was left in the dark for almost a decade over the full scale of the treachery of one of her most senior courtiers, according to newly-released files. In 1964, Sir Anthony Blunt, the ...
MI5 documents: Late Queen was not told that Anthony Blunt was …
2 days ago · The late Queen was not formally told of the full scale of Cambridge spy Anthony Blunt’s treachery for almost a decade, according to newly published MI5 documents. A distinguished art historian ...
Who Was Anthony Blunt? The Spy in Buckingham Palace
Nov 25, 2019 · According to Michelle Carter, who has written a biography named ‘Anthony Blunt: His Lives’, Blunt provided Soviet intelligence officers with 1,771 documents between 1941 and 1945. The sheer amount of material passed over by Blunt made the Russians suspicious he was acting as a triple agent.
Anthony Blunt - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), [4] styled Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO from 1956 to 1979, was a British art historian and spy. In 1964, he confessed to having been a spy for the Soviet Union and was part of the spy group the Cambridge Five.