Elizabeth II kept in dark over Palace traitor Anthony Blunt Newly-declassified files show the Queen was only told the full story a decade after royal courtier confessed to spying for the KGB.

Queen Elizabeth II was not told for almost a decade that a long-serving royal art historian had confessed to being a Soviet spy, ... a KGB officer who attempted to defect to the West in 1945. ...

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II died at Balmoral castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and with her passing came an end to the longest reign of any monarch in British history. It was the end of the Second ...

Queen Elizabeth II died in 2022 at the age of 96. ... a KGB officer who tried to defect to the West in 1945, bringing with him details of moles inside British intelligence ...

In 2007, the former KGB officer was honoured by Queen Elizabeth II, being made a Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and St George (CMG) in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.