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Christine Margaret Keeler (22 February 1942 – 4 December 2017) was an English model and showgirl. Her meeting at a dance club with society osteopath Stephen Ward drew her into fashionable circles. At the height of the Cold War, she became sexually involved with a married Cabinet minister, John Profumo, as well as with a Soviet naval attaché ...
May 2, 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 Harold Macmillan.
Dec 6, 2017 · Christine Keeler obituary: the woman at the heart of the Profumo affair. Model and showgirl at the centre of the scandal that rocked 1960s Britain. Peter Stanford. Wed 6 Dec 2017 03.54 EST....
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.
Dec 5, 2017 · 5 December 2017. Getty Images. Christine Keeler found herself at the centre of an affair that rocked the British establishment. The revelations about her relationship with the cabinet minister...
Dec 5, 2017 · Christine Keeler, who in the early 1960s was at the center of a sensational political scandal in Britain, known as the Profumo affair, that played a role in the downfall of a Conservative...
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Christine Keeler was a former model who had affairs with a British politician and a Soviet attaché, sparking a national crisis in 1963. She faced years of scandal, abuse and poverty, and died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 2017.
