Anthony Blunt Soviet spy and courtier told colleagues he was illegitimate child of George V

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Soviet spy and courtier told colleagues he was illegitimate child of George V


By Ephraim Hardcastle
Last updated at 10:32 PM on 30th June 2009

Now the unpublished memoirs of the late royal courtier, Soviet spy and aesthete Anthony Blunt are back in the news, why did the Royal Family shield his treachery for 15 years until it was exposed to the world by then Tory premier Margaret Thatcher in 1979?

According to a new source, wartime MI5 officer Blunt, who was sent to Germany to get all correspondence between Empress Frederick and her mother Queen Victoria - the House of Windsor not wishing their private family papers falling into foreign (ie. Russian and American) hands - told his colleagues he was actually the illegitimate child of King George V, by his mother, Hilda Blunt. Food for thought!


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