The queen’s private secretary, Martin Charteris, was told only that MI5 intended to interrogate Blunt due to his close ties with fellow spy Guy Burgess, who fled to the Soviet Union. In all like ...

It is thought that after the Queen Mother's passing in 2002, Queen Elizabeth II had a different view on life events.

‘Only Lieutenant Colonel Martin Charteris, the Queen's private secretary, and his deputy, Philip Moore, know about it at the ...

In 1972, her private secretary, Martin Charteris, told MI5 chief Michael Hanley that “the queen did not know and he saw no advantage in telling her about it now; it would only add to her worries ...

One memo shows that Martin Charteris, the monarch’s private secretary, told MI5 boss Michael Hanley in 1972 that the queen was unaware of Blunt’s spying, saying that to inform her “would ...