Christine Keeler - Wikipedia
On the weekend of 8–9 July 1961, Ward introduced Keeler to John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War, at a pool party at Cliveden, the Buckinghamshire mansion owned by the 3rd Viscount Astor. Profumo began a brief affair with Keeler, the exact length of which is disputed.
Profumo affair - Wikipedia
John Profumo, the 46-year-old Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, had an extramarital affair with the 19-year-old model Christine Keeler beginning in 1961. Profumo denied the affair in a statement to the House of Commons in 1963; weeks later, a police investigation proved that he had lied.
Christine Keeler | Facts, Biography, & Profumo Affair | Britannica
Nov 30, 2024 · Christine Keeler (born February 22, 1942, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England—died December 4, 2017, Orpington, Kent) was an English model who, as one of the central figures in the Profumo affair, contributed to the collapse of the Conservative government of …
Christine Keeler obituary: Life of the Profumo scandal model
Dec 5, 2017 · Christine Keeler found herself at the centre of an affair that rocked the British establishment. The revelations about her relationship with the cabinet minister John Profumo hastened the end...
Sex, lies and spies: the real history of the Profumo Affair
In an upstairs flat at 17 Wimpole Mews in Marylebone, Stephen Ward is with his latest protégée – 19-year-old Christine Keeler. Ward had ‘discovered’ her two years earlier, working as a showgirl in Murray’s Cabaret Club in Soho.
Christine Keeler And The Profumo Scandal That Shook Up 1960s …
Aug 30, 2021 · In 1961, John Profumo began an affair with showgirl Christine Keeler — and the ensuing Profumo Scandal sent Britain into a tailspin.
Who was Christine Keeler? The true story behind BBC drama about Profumo …
Dec 30, 2019 · It initially centred on the sexual relationship between the Secretary of State for War, Profumo, and Keeler, a then-little known model, but it soon spiralled into a major scandal about Cold War...
Profumo sex scandal icon Christine Keeler could finally get …
Nov 16, 2023 · Christine, who died in 2017 aged 75, was 19 when she had an affair with war minister John Profumo and helped topple the Tory Government in the most infamous political sex scandal ever.
10 Facts About the Profumo Affair - History Hit
Jan 15, 2021 · Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, had admitted to having an extra-marital affair. Not only that, but he had lied about it in the House of Commons. The woman he had slept with was called Christine Keeler. Here are 10 facts about what has come to be notoriously known as the ‘Profumo Affair’. 1.
The Profumo Affair: The Secretary of State for War & the Famous …
Mar 19, 2022 · Amid heightened international security at the height of the Cold War, the British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, had a brief affair with Christine Keeler, a 19-year-old model, that would prove to have lasting repercussions.