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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.
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Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), [4] 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...
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Sep 22, 2024 · Anthony Blunt 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 he was soon involved in espionage on.
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Nov 17, 2019 · Here's what you should know about Anthony Blunt who remained in Queen Elizabeth's service long after confessing to being a Soviet operative.
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Nov 25, 2019 · According to Michelle Carter, who has written a biography named ‘Anthony Blunt: His Lives’, Blunt provided Soviet intelligence officers with 1,771 documents between 1941 and 1945. The sheer amount of material passed over by Blunt made the Russians suspicious he was acting as a triple agent.
Nov 20, 2019 · Anthony Blunt was publicly revealed as a Soviet spy in 1979 and stripped of his knighthood.
Apr 2, 2021 · Who was Anthony Blunt? Anthony Frederick Blunt was the third cousin of the Queen Mother. Born in 1907, he attended public schools as a child and won a scholarship to attend Cambridge...
