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The Profumo affair was a major scandal in British politics during the early 1960s. 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 affair, in British history, political and intelligence scandal in the early 1960s that helped topple the Conservative Party government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Involving sex, a Russian spy, and the secretary of state for war, the scandal captured the attention of the British public.
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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...
Nov 3, 2022 · Here's what you should know about the Profumo Affair, and how Prince Philip is (tangentially) connected to it. The scandal is named for John Profumo, the U.K.'s onetime secretary of...
- Keeler worked in a nightclub when she first moved to London. In 1959 Dr Stephen Ward, a noted osteopath, was visiting Murray’s nightclub in Soho when he met Keeler.
- Profumo and Keeler first met at Lord Astor’s pool. In July 1961 Ward was entertaining a few friends, including Keeler, at a cottage he rented from Lord Astor.
- There were allegations that Keeler and Ward were Soviet spies. On the day following that first meeting, all the guests congregated at the pool. These included a recent acquaintance of Ward, married Soviet attaché Eugene Ivanov.
- The affair lasted less than two months. Within a few days, John Profumo had persuaded Ward to help him make contact with Christine Keeler and the minister was soon having an affair with the young, aspiring model.
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...
May 25, 2024 · Perhaps no single event encapsulated this upheaval more than the Profumo Affair, a scandal that began with a covert affair between a government minister and a model and ended with the downfall of a prime minister and the shattering of the British public‘s trust in its ruling classes.
