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  2. Dec 30, 2019 · Now, the major scandal that dominated headlines in the Sixties has been turned into an original BBC One drama, starring The Crown ’s Ben Miles as John Profumo and Sophie Cookson (best known for...

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  3. 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.

  4. Dec 30, 2019 · Sophie Cookson stars as Keeler, Ben Miles plays Profumo and James Norton, Ward. Unlike Michael Caton-Jones's 1989 film Scandal, which focuses on Ward (John Hurt) and is over-jolly for the...

  5. May 28, 2024 · Caton-Jones’ historical drama saw Joanne Whalley play Christine Keeler, Ian McKellen play John Profumo, and John Hurt play Stephen Ward, an osteopath and artist who had first introduced the pair in the summer of 1961.

  6. 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 ...

  7. It is now dramatised, in minute detail, in a six-part BBC series The Trial of Christine Keeler by screenwriter and novelist Amanda Coe. Sophie Cookson stars as Keeler, Ben Miles plays...

  8. Jan 26, 2020 · Featuring actress Sophie Cookson in the lead role of Keeler, the six part drama focuses on the 19 year old model and dancer’s involvement in the Profumo affair scandal which contributed to...

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