Royal secrets are going public.

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rze99rze99 Frets: 2808
edited January 14 in Off Topic
It’s Another New Year’s state papers being released into the public domain. 

The late Queen Elizabeth II was not told for almost 10 years that Anthony Blunt, a surveyor of the queen’s pictures and a member of the royal household, had confessed to being a Soviet double agent, previously secret security files suggest.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/14/mi5-files-queen-elizabeth-spy-in-royal-household-anthony-blunt
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  • You mean the Tax payers who paid her wages werent told. 
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  • snowblindsnowblind Frets: 1168
    Was Anthony Blunt a taxpayer?

    I had a chemistry teacher who went to school with one of the 4. Can't recall if it was Philby or Burgess but I do recall the teacher saying the guy had always been a poisonous little s%^t.
    Old, overweight and badly maintained. Unlike my amps which are just old and overweight.
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  • ColsCols Frets: 8141
    You mean the Tax payers who paid her wages werent told. 
    Did the Queen get wages from general tax income?  News to me.
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  • TeleMasterTeleMaster Frets: 11055
    edited January 14
    snowblind said:
    Was Anthony Blunt a taxpayer?

    I had a chemistry teacher who went to school with one of the 4. Can't recall if it was Philby or Burgess but I do recall the teacher saying the guy had always been a poisonous little s%^t.
    Everyone pays tax. If you walk into a shop and buy a Mars bar you're a taxpayer. It's just some even try and get round that if they can!
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 76464
    snowblind said:

    I had a chemistry teacher who went to school with one of the 4. Can't recall if it was Philby or Burgess but I do recall the teacher saying the guy had always been a poisonous little s%^t.
    At least those two got a suitable punishment - having to live in the USSR for the rest of their lives.

    Blunt got a plum job and essentially got away with it.

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein

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  • OffsetOffset Frets: 15679
    Royal secrets are going public?  Nah - not those everyone would like to hear.
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  • Jono111Jono111 Frets: 352
    snowblind said:
    Was Anthony Blunt a taxpayer?

    I had a chemistry teacher who went to school with one of the 4. Can't recall if it was Philby or Burgess but I do recall the teacher saying the guy had always been a poisonous little s%^t.
    Everyone pays tax. If you walk into a shop and buy a Mars bar you're a taxpayer. It's just some even try and get round that if they can!
    Are you suggesting the queen nipped round to the corner shop to buy Mars bars
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  • TeleMasterTeleMaster Frets: 11055
    Jono111 said:
    snowblind said:
    Was Anthony Blunt a taxpayer?

    I had a chemistry teacher who went to school with one of the 4. Can't recall if it was Philby or Burgess but I do recall the teacher saying the guy had always been a poisonous little s%^t.
    Everyone pays tax. If you walk into a shop and buy a Mars bar you're a taxpayer. It's just some even try and get round that if they can!
    Are you suggesting the queen nipped round to the corner shop to buy Mars bars
    She only buys king sized!
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  • CaseOfAceCaseOfAce Frets: 1653
    Amazing that Blunt actually outed himself.

    He tried to obtain the manuscript prior to publication of The Climate of Treason: Five Who Spied For Russia and the book's editor refused (Blunt was represented in the book as Maurice) . This was reported in Private Eye and eventually led to Margaret Thatcher naming Blunt in the Commons...
    ...she's got Dickie Davies eyes...
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 76464
    Offset said:
    Royal secrets are going public?  Nah - not those everyone would like to hear.
    You mean like a list of all the legislation the royals have exempted themselves from or modified when it doesn’t suit them?

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein

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  • ColsCols Frets: 8141
    ICBM said:
    Offset said:
    Royal secrets are going public?  Nah - not those everyone would like to hear.
    You mean like a list of all the legislation the royals have exempted themselves from or modified when it doesn’t suit them?

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  • OffsetOffset Frets: 15679
    ICBM said:
    Offset said:
    Royal secrets are going public?  Nah - not those everyone would like to hear.
    You mean like a list of all the legislation the royals have exempted themselves from or modified when it doesn’t suit them?
    That counts yes, but I was erring more on the sleazy side of things (be that money or sex)  
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  • hollywoodroxhollywoodrox Frets: 4894
    I wouldn’t mind a rent free flat near Moscow & a small pension to live on
      I’m a Russian Spy you know  I’m ready to come in Motherland 
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  • hollywoodroxhollywoodrox Frets: 4894
    MI6 took out Princess Di using a method originally earmarked for a visit by Gadaffi powerful strobe in a tunnel 
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  • ColsCols Frets: 8141
    I wouldn’t mind a rent free flat near Moscow & a small pension to live on
      I’m a Russian Spy you know  I’m ready to come in Motherland 
    Maybe not… Philby was only given minor tasks to occupy him on arrival in Moscow and died 25 years later, a lonely alcoholic.
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  • dazzajldazzajl Frets: 6564
    You mean the Tax payers who paid her wages werent told. 
    Why would we be?
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  • rze99rze99 Frets: 2808
    MI6 took out Princess Di using a method originally earmarked for a visit by Gadaffi powerful strobe in a tunnel 
    Your evidence is…?
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  • OffsetOffset Frets: 15679
    rze99 said:
    MI6 took out Princess Di using a method originally earmarked for a visit by Gadaffi powerful strobe in a tunnel 
    Your evidence is…?
    Mo al Fayed told him.
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  • sev112sev112 Frets: 3104
    Offset said:
    rze99 said:
    MI6 took out Princess Di using a method originally earmarked for a visit by Gadaffi powerful strobe in a tunnel 
    Your evidence is…?
    Mo al Fayed told him.
    Lord of the Rings isnt real you know 
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  • snowblindsnowblind Frets: 1168
    sev112 said:
    Lord of the Rings isn't real you know 
    Yes it is! I saw the documentary. 3 parter I think it was. Presented by that skinny scandinavian bloke; Morten Harket or summat.
    Old, overweight and badly maintained. Unlike my amps which are just old and overweight.
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