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 ...

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.

In Britain, Queen Elizabeth II appointed him a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 2007 for “services to the security of the United Kingdom.” It is the same accolade held ...