For a first book, Anthony Blunt: His Lives is astonishingly assured and accomplished. I haven't enjoyed a biography so much since Judith Thurman's Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette.

ANTHONY BLUNT: His Lives. By Miranda Carter. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30. IMAGINE this scenario: An Englishman, a kinsman of the royal family, betrays his nation and its allies by giving top ...

Anthony Blunt confessed in 1964 to spying for the Soviet Union as part of the notorious Cambridge Five spy ring during World War II. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our ...

In her biography of Blunt, Anthony Blunt: His Lives, Miranda Carter notes that in 1963, the art historian may have stepped out of his semi-retirement to help the royal family out of a bind.

Sir Anthony Blunt, world- renowned art expert, academic, lecturer and author, adviser to... Traitor with a masterly eye / A vital and detailed biography of art expert and Cold War spy Sir Anthony ...

In 1964, Sir Anthony Blunt, the royal family's picture surveyor and renowned art historian, finally admitted that he had been a Soviet agent since the 1930s. The Mirror US.

LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II was not officially informed about the treachery of a senior palace courtier for nearly a decade, newly declassified documents reveal. Anthony Blunt served as the ...

Sir Anthony Blunt, a distinguished British art historian and curator of the Queen's pictures was exposed as a former Soviet spy in the autumn of 1979.

Queen Elizabeth II with Sir Anthony Blunt during an art exhibition in London in 1979. Then-MI5 Director General Michael Hanley noted that by November 1972, only Charteris and his deputy, Philip ...