The Profumo affair led to a government minister's resignation on 5 June 1963. In 1983, Christine Keeler talked to the BBC ...

From 1963: Mollie Panter-Downes on the affair between John Profumo and Christine Keeler, which brought down the government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.

How the U.K.’s ‘Profumo Affair’ sex scandal invites modern parallels, half a century later. ... In 1963, Bill Clinton was only 17 years old and 3,000 miles away in Arkansas when Profumo gave a formal ...

Profumo denied the affair in the House of Commons in March 1963, but in June he was found to have been lying. Ward later faced charges of immorality as, although Keeler was not a prostitute, she ...

By 1963 London was a swinging city, and rumors of sexual impropriety among the wealthy and powerful were rampant in the British press. Profumo’s name surfaced in March of that year, and he went ...

This was published 2 years ago. From the Archives, 1963: The Profumo affair Sixty years ago, the British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, was forced to resign after he lied to the House ...

Here's what you should know about the Profumo Affair, and how Prince Philip is (tangentially) connected to it. Search. Subscribe; ... Only a few months later, in June 1963, ...

Reporting from London — Mandy Rice-Davies, a key figure in the “Profumo Affair,” a scandal of sex and politics that rocked Cold War Britain, has died. She was 70. Her PR firm, Hackford Jones ...

Christine Keeler, a former model whose relations during the 1960s Cold War with a British cabinet minister and a Russian diplomat contributed to the downfall of a Conservative government, has died ...