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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.
Nov 17, 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.
Nov 17, 2019 · A KGB spy worked in Buckingham Palace For Decades, and The Crown season 3 tells part of the story. Here's what you should know about Anthony Blunt who remained in Queen Elizabeth's service long...
Anthony Blunt (born Sept. 26, 1907, Bournemouth, Hampshire, Eng.—died March 26, 1983, London) was a British art historian who late in his life was revealed to have been a Soviet spy. While a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in the 1930s Blunt became a member of a circle of disaffected young men led by Guy Burgess, under whose influence ...
Queen Elizabeth's art historian Anthony Blunt was a knight, an authority on 17th-century painting, and a ruthless Soviet spy at the heart of Britain’s establishment. Blunt’s treachery, dramatized on Netflix’s The Crown , is all the more remarkable in that it carried on for decades until an extraordinary tip-off from the FBI led British ...
Nov 25, 2019 · 25 Nov 2019. @history_alice. In 1979, Margaret Thatcher revealed that a Soviet spy had been working from the heart of the British Establishment, managing the Queen’s paintings. So why did Anthony Blunt, an Oxbridge-educated vicar’s son from Hampshire, seek to undermine the Royal family from within?
Nov 20, 2019 · Anthony Blunt, the Royal Art Curator Who Was Actually a Soviet Spy, Has a Surprising Star Turn in Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ Anthony Blunt was publicly revealed as a Soviet spy in 1979 and ...
Jul 22, 2009 · Anthony Blunt memoir reveals spy's regret at 'the biggest mistake of my life' | Second world war | The Guardian. Anthony Blunt, whose account of his wartime espionage and public unmasking...
Jul 24, 2009 · July 23, 2009. CAMBRIDGE, England After keeping it sealed in a steel container for 25 years, the British Library made public on Thursday a 30,000-word memoir in which Anthony Blunt, one of...
Jul 22, 2021 · Photo: Central Press / Stringer / Hulton Archive / Getty Images. President of the British Academy David Cannadine discusses the life and unmasking of distinguished art historian Anthony Blunt as a former Soviet spy.
Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), styled Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO from 1956 to 1979, was a British art historian and spy. In 1964, he confessed to having been a spy for the Soviet Union and was part of the spy group the Cambridge Five.
Mar 27, 1983 · Anthony Blunt, a former curator of Queen Elizabeth II's art collection who in 1979 was exposed as having been the mysterious fourth man in a Soviet spying ring, collapsed and died at breakfast in ...
Nov 17, 2019 · The third season’s story line about Blunt, the queen’s art adviser who was revealed to be a Soviet spy, was ripped from the headlines. What happened to him?
Apr 2, 2021 · But who was Anthony Blunt and how did a Soviet spy become the Queen’s art adviser? Who was Anthony Blunt? Anthony Frederick Blunt was the third cousin of the Queen Mother.
Jun 6, 2020 · She revealed that Blunt - openly gay and a former intelligence officer for MI5 - was a member of the infamous Cambridge Five spy ring who had traded secrets with Soviet Russia during the Second ...
Jul 24, 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...
Mar 27, 1983 · LONDON -- Anthony Blunt, 75, Queen Elizabeth's former art adviser who was unmasked in 1979 as a former spy for the Soviet Union, died at his home here yesterday. He had a heart ailment. Mr. Blunt ...
Nov 17, 2019 · Despite dramatic depictions on the Netflix hit, the story of Anthony Blunt (Samuel West) is anything but fiction. Blunt served as the royal's official art curator—a.k.a. the Surveyor of the King and Queen's Pictures—for 29 years, working for both the queen and her father, King George VI.
Nov 3, 2022 · In The Crown, Anthony Blunt (curator to the royal family & Queen Elizabeth) blackmails Prince Philip with sketches from the Profumo affair. Did that really happen?
In November 1979, Margaret Thatcher exposed the distinguished art historian Anthony Blunt as a former Soviet spy - part of the infamous Cambridge Spy Ring wh...
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