Wednesday 5 June marks the 50th anniversary of the resignation of the Conservative War Minister John Profumo – the culmination of a series of revelations that we now call the Profumo Affair.

Gisela Winegard and John Profumo met in Oxford in the 1930s, before she started working for German intelligence Tory minister John Profumo - who resigned over a notorious 1960s sex scandal - had a ...

The night John Profumo resigned as Minister for War, O’Brien was dispatched to Ward’s flat to check where exactly on the Cliveden estate in Berkshire Profumo had met the model Christine Keeler.

Probably the most famous political sex scandal was the Profumo affair. The Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigned from Harold Macmillan's Government in 1963 after admitting that he had ...

John Profumo met Christine Keeler at Cliveden in 1961, precipitating a political scandal when the story emerged two years later The country house where one of post-war Britain's biggest political ...