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17 de nov. de 2019 · Anthony Blunt was the art curator for Queen Elizabeth & the royal family. Later, he was discovered as a Russian spy. Here, how Blunt's true story compares to The Crown season 3's plot line.
17 de nov. de 2019 · The Queen stripped Anthony Blunt of his knighthood immediately after the news broke, and though he remained in London, Blunt lived as a recluse until he died of a heart attack in 1983 at age...
17 de nov. de 2019 · In 1964 Sir Anthony Blunt, a leading art historian and art surveyor who frequently advised Queen Elizabeth II on art matters, was revealed as a member of the Cambridge Five, a group of Soviet...
Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), styled Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO from 1956 to November 1979, was a leading British art historian and Soviet spy. Blunt was a professor of art history at the University of London, the director of the Courtauld Institute of Art and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures.
20 de nov. de 2019 · Anthony Blunt lived a double life, juggling his love of art with a sideline in treason. It would all catch up to him later. Anthony Blunt was publicly revealed as a Soviet spy in 1979 and stripped ...
24 de jul. de 2018 · When the Queen’s art adviser Anthony Blunt quietly admitted in 1964 that he had been a spy for Stalinist Russia, the confession sent shockwaves through the British secret state and the royal...
17 de nov. de 2019 · While The Crown makes it seem as if it were largely up to the royal to decide whether to out Blunt, the truth was U.K. intelligence "granted immunity from prosecution" and job security in exchange for his 1964 confession, according to The New York Times.
