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1 day ago · It was there in July that John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan‘s Conservative government, first met Christine Keeler, a striking 19-year-old model and topless dancer. Profumo was 46, married, and a rising star in the Tory party, a veteran MP who had previously served as a junior minister at the Foreign Office.
4 days ago · John Profumo, the War Minister, lied to the House of Commons about his affair with Christine Keeler, who was also involved with a Soviet diplomat.
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5 days ago · Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel; [1] 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria. As such, he was consort of the British monarch from their marriage on 10 February 1840 until his death in 1861. Victoria granted him the title Prince Consort in 1857.
1 day ago · Labour's 1964 election campaign was aided by the Profumo affair, a ministerial sex scandal that had mortally wounded Harold Macmillan and hurt the Conservatives. Wilson made capital without getting involved in the less salubrious aspects.
1 day ago · John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law-enforcement administrator who served as the final Director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). President Calvin Coolidge first appointed Hoover as director of the BOI, the predecessor to the FBI, in 1924.
5 days ago · 1. Which Prime Minister once played cricket for the MCC? Hint. Anthony Eden. John Major. Stanley Baldwin. Sir Alec Douglas-Home.
5 days ago · Congo's army spokesman on Tuesday released the name of the third American involved a foiled coup plot in Kinshasa, while family members in Utah gathered to mourn Christian Malanga, the eccentric leader of the brazen and ill-fated attack targeting the presidential palace over the weekend.
