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Now the political scandal is being dramatised onscreen in BBC One's six-part series The Trial of Christine Keeler, starring Sophie Cookson, Ellie Bamber, Ben Miles and James Norton. Here's...
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Dec 30, 2019 · The final scene of The Trial of Christine Keeler looks forwards from that 1963 moment - it has her dancing in a reverie, with closed eyes and upturned arms.
Mar 6, 2021 · But the most significant case for Keeler was the trial of Lucky Gordon, the jazz singer who was initially found guilty for seriously assaulting her at the home of a friend.
- Who Was Christine Keeler?
- What Was The Profumo Affair?
- How Was John Profumo caught?
- When Did Profumo Resign?
- What Happened to Stephen Ward?
- The Political Fallout of Profumo
Rewind two years. It’s 1961 and National Service has been abolished, John F Kennedy has been sworn in as the youngest-ever elected president of the United States, betting shops are legal, and Elvis and the Everly Brothers top the charts. The British are finally stepping out of the shadow of World War II – life is for living, opportunities are there...
The portentous event took place at Cliveden House, an ostentatious country pile in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, owned by Lord ‘Bill’ Astor. Those present included Stephen Ward, osteopath to the wealthy and well connected, Yevgeny Ivanov, a Soviet naval attaché and, most notably, Conservative cabinet minister John ‘Jack’ Profumo and teenage showgirl Chr...
Post-Profumo, Keeler hooked up with several men including Jamaican singer Aloysius ‘Lucky’ Gordon and Antiguan-born Johnny Edgecombe. While neither of these men had any direct connection to the scandal their involvement with Keeler – which included Gordon holding her hostage for two days while wielding an axe, and Edgecombe then slashing Gordon’s f...
Profumo was forced to admit to Parliament that Keeler had been his mistress and that he had lied to the Commons. Sex, lies andSoviets? This was the stuff that could topple a government. He had to resign, which he did on 4 June 1963. The pressure was now on the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan. He refused to quit but, realising he had to do somethin...
The biggest scandal of the whole affair was Stephen Ward’s trial. Arrested days after Profumo’s resignation, he was brought before the Old Bailey on charges of procuring women and living off immoral earnings. The son of a vicar and former tea salesman may have been a social climber and sexual voyeur, but he wasn’t a pimp. Keeler and Rice-Davies wer...
Prior to the Profumo Affair, the Conservative Party had been steadily declining in popularity. Between 1957 and 1963, Harold Macmillan transformed from a confident premier, running a country where Britons had “never had it so good”, to a prime minister under pressure. In July 1962, Macmillan sacked seven ministers, in what became known as the ‘Nigh...
Keeler was alleged to have been a prostitute, which was not a criminal offence. Ward was, however, found guilty of being her pimp; a trial was instigated after the embarrassment caused to the government. The trial has since been considered a miscarriage of justice and a charade orchestrated by the establishment to protect itself. [2]
Sep 21, 2017 · He was a victimised in a show trial in which the lord chief justice made a shameful conviction and took a fatal overdose while the jury was considering its verdicts under unwarrantable pressure...
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Dec 29, 2019 · The BBC's new six-part drama on the real-life scandal stars Sophie Cookson, Ben Miles and James Norton.
