“Maybe all a nightmare really is,” says Christine Keeler (Sophie Cookson ... telling them about her affair with John Profumo (Ben Miles) and her association with Russian attaché Colonel ...
We are talking, of course, about the Profumo Affair, the name given to the incident which kicked off with an affair between 19-year-old Christine Keeler and the then secretary of state for war ...
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 ...
Dubbed the "Profumo affair," The Trial of Christine Keeler details the events leading to, during, and following the scandal. Written by novelist and screenwriter Amanda Coe, The Trial of Christine ...
“The affair was just the start of the shambles ... disagree over how much his resignation was down to John Profumo and Christine Keeler – the country had been gripped by its first major ...
“I never longed for the spotlight but somehow the spotlight found me.” That line, by Christine Keeler (Sophie Cookson), was heard in the opening of the first episode of the BBC’s The Trial ...
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 ...
Cliveden House, in Buckinghamshire, was where Conservative Secretary of State for War John Profumo met Christine Keeler in 1961. His decision to lie about the affair destroyed his career ...
Following her breakthrough role in The Trial Of Christine Keeler ... You’ve said that by retelling the tale of the Profumo affair through Keeler’s eyes, you wanted to “reclaim” her ...
The historic sex-scandal involved John Profumo, the then 46-year-old Secretary of State for War, who had an affair with teenage model Christine Keeler in 1961. Profumo was forced to resign and the ...
Tom Mangolds inside story of the scandal that rocked Britain showing what it was really like to live with Stephen Ward as he became the scapegoat for the Profumo affair ...
In Summer 1961 at a party held on the Cliveden estate of Lord Astor Minister for War John Profumo met and subsequently had a brief affair with a callgirl by the name of Christine Keeler who had ...