The Queen, the KGB Spy and the Prime Minister Who Wasn't Told
- Secret files contain apology for keeping truth from leader
- Other documents reveal Thatcher’s car-napping secret
Anthony Blunt
Photographer: Aubrey Hart/Hulton Archive via Getty Images
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Former U.K. Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home wasn’t told that one of the Queen’s aides had confessed to being a Soviet agent because his Home Secretary did not want to “add to his burden,” according to newly released files.
The revelation is contained in previously secret documents released on Tuesday at the National Archives in London. Other files deal with Margaret Thatcher’s habit of falling asleep in cars and the way her office prepared for the election of her successor.