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Jan 26, 2020 · The Profumo affair contributed to the fall of Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and his government after a Soviet spy was thought to have accessed private information from the Secretary ...
Aug 1, 2020 · But before the decade was out, he had embarked on an affair with the wife of one of his fellow 1924 Westminster intake, Harold Macmillan. Dorothy Macmillan, daughter of the Duke of Devonshire, was not known as a society beauty but she and Boothby succumbed to fiery mutual desire. (She had thighs like hams, he unchivalrously reported to one friend).
Mar 4, 1996 · COLIN BROWN. The existence of a tape recording of Harold Macmillan and Bob Boothby discussing Boothby's affair with Macmillan's wife, Lady Dorothy, has been disclosed by a former...
A conversation in which the former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan finally confronts his wife’s lover about the spectre that haunted him all his life — the rumoured illegitimacy of his...
Jun 5, 2023 · Sixty years ago today, on 5 June 1963, Profumo rose in the House of Commons to admit that he had lied to his wife, his cabinet colleagues, and the nation, about an affair with a 19-year-old...
For the Macmillan regime, the timing of the Profumo affair couldn’t have been worse. Sleaze delivered the final blow for a government seen as outdated, incompetent and out of step with the public mood. In October 1963, Macmillan, who had hoped to lead the Tories into the next election, resigned due to ill health.
Mollie Panter-Downes on the affair between John Profumo and Christine Keeler, which brought down the government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
