The Queen reportedly took the news "calmly and without surprise" when finally told, according to a personal manuscript letter from her then-private secretary, Sir Martin Charteris. Blunt had ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

Mr Vickers said: "Martin Charteris, who I think was the Queen's best private secretary always used to say 'wait and see what happens when the Queen Mother dies. I think with any parent they are ...

The exhibition features a contact sheet of proofs of the coronation sitting, alongside a note from Martin Charteris, the Queen’s assistant private secretary, recommending to Prince Philip which ...

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 ...