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- During this time, it was feared that Keeler could have passed information about Profumo to Ivanov. Amid fears of a security breech, Labour MP George Wigg used his Parliamentary privilege in 1963 to address Profumo over the affair in the House of Commons.
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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.
When did Profumo resign? Profumo was forced to admit to Parliament that Keeler had been his mistress and that he had lied to the Commons. Sex, lies and Soviets? This was the stuff that could topple a government. He had to resign, which he did on 4 June 1963.
Mar 19, 2022 · The Profumo Affair, a dalliance between the UK’s middle-aged Secretary of State for War and a 19-year-old model, led to a Cold War-era political and national security scandal. Mar 19, 2022 • By Stephanie Jelks, MPhil History, MA History, BA Political Science. John Profumo arrives at the House of Commons, 1962.
Aug 30, 2021 · At a pool party at a grand country estate outside of London in 1961, Britain’s Secretary of War John Profumo fatefully met Christine Keeler, a 19-year old showgirl and aspiring model. What followed was an affair as short as it was intense, and though it ended just a few months later, it spelled ruin for both parties in the years to come.
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Dec 5, 2017 · On 5 June, Profumo resigned as Secretary of State for War, having admitted that he had lied to the House of Commons about his relationship with Keeler. Perjury Stephen Ward was arrested and ...
Jun 5, 2013 · Profumo then lied to Parliament. In March 1963, he told MPs there was “no impropriety whatsoever” in his relationship with Ms Keeler. The press gossip didn’t stop.
From 1963: Mollie Panter-Downes on the affair between John Profumo and Christine Keeler, which brought down the government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
