Just how accurate is the The Crown's representation of the real-life spy scandal?
divorce to the introduction of Camilla Parker Bowles . One of the show's most ripped-from-the-headlines aspects, though, is a real-life spy scandal that rocked the royal family. This storyline is based on the real-life exposure of Anthony Blunt, the queen's art advisor, as a Soviet spy, and the show portrays the queen as feeling betrayed by the revelation.
Prior to being exposed as a spy and stripped of his knighthood by Margaret Thatcher, Blunt was a professor of art history at the University of London, director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures. On season three, episode one ofIn addition to Blunt, the other four spies—Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, and John Cairncross—were recruited by Soviet operatives while studying at Cambridge in the 1930s to gather intelligence in the United Kingdom.
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