Royal Duty. Season 5 Episode 504 | 43m 1s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Includes the controversy around Russian spy Anthony Blunt’s stay at the Palace in the '80s and more. Aired 04/01/2025 ...

Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told about Soviet spy in her palace, declassified MI5 files show The government decided to tell the monarch in 1973, when Mr. Blunt was ill, fearing a media uproar once ...

Blunt was publicly unmasked as a spy by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the House of Commons in November 1979. He was finally stripped of his knighthood, but never prosecuted, and died in 1983 ...

The art expert was the fourth member to be uncovered of the notorious ‘Cambridge Five’, a spy ring of British agents who passed information to the Soviet Union during the Second World War and the Cold ...

FILE - Professor Anthony Blunt, former surveyor of the Queen's pictures, photographed at the Courtauld Institute with Queen Elizabeth II on Nov. 15, 1979.

FILE - Professor Anthony Blunt, former surveyor of the Queen's pictures, photographed at the Courtauld Institute with Queen Elizabeth II on Nov. 15, 1979.