Queen Elizabeth II was not officially informed for nearly a decade that Anthony Blunt was a Soviet spy, newly declassified documents reveal.

Queen Elizabeth II was kept in the dark for nearly a decade about ... Miranda Carter, who penned a 2001 biography of Blunt, believes the Queen would have been informed informally sometime after 1965. "It's the job of a private secretary to a monarch ...

The identity of a Russian spy among Queen Elizabeth II's courtiers was kept from the monarch for almost a decade, but she took the news with her typically calm demeanour