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Mar 22, 2024 · 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 17, 2011 · Originally published in the Guardian on 17 November 1979 : Anthony Blunt, the former surveyor of the Queen's pictures was unmasked as a wartime Soviet spy
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 ...
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?
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?
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.
