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Apr 11, 2021 · Prince Philip by Stephen Ward. Christine Keeler was the woman at the centre of the Profumo scandal. As a teenager, she slept with Captain Eugene Ivanov, a Russian naval attaché at the Soviet Embassy in London, while also having a relationship with the much older John Profumo, the high-flying Conservative MP who was Secretary of State for War.
Nov 3, 2022 · Profumo had a five-month affair with Christine Keeler, a sex worker and sometimes model, in 1961. This somewhat passé event—a married politician having a fling—would eventually cause the...
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 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 ...
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- Christine Margaret Keeler, 22 February 1942, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England
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Apr 5, 2021 · At its center was a cabaret dancer and model named Christine Keeler, who engaged in an affair with then-Secretary of State for War John Profumo, who was a rising star in the government of Prime...
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Apr 9, 2021 · In real life, the Profumo Scandal happened in 1963 and involved Minister of War John Profumo's affair with 19-year-old Christine Keeler.
John Profumo, Christine Keeler and the scandal of sex, lies and spies that brought down a British Government in the early 1960s It was perhaps the biggest scandal in British political history, leading to jail sentences, suicide and the fall of a government.