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.

The Profumo affair, involving teenaged Christine Keeler and U.K. Secretary of State for War John Profumo, is among the most notorious political scandals of the 20th century in Britain. Keeler's ...

Christine Keeler was just 19 when she had an affair with John Profumo, who was decades her senior at the time. Keeler had already survived the death of her premature son, when she was 17 ...

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 ...