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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.
Keeler was born in Uxbridge, Middlesex.Her father, Colin Sean Keeler (later known as Colin King, 1921–1976), [3] abandoned the family in 1945. She was brought up by her mother, Julie Ellen (née Payne, 1923–2012), [4] [5] and stepfather, Edward Huish, in a house made from two converted railway carriages in the Berkshire village of Wraysbury.
John Dennis Profumo CBE (/ p r ə ˈ f juː m oʊ / prə-FEW-moh; 30 January 1915 – 9 March 2006) was a British politician whose career ended in 1963 after a sexual relationship with the 19-year-old model Christine Keeler in 1961. The scandal, which became known as the Profumo affair, led to his resignation from the Conservative government of ...
The Christine Keeler Story (also known as The Keeler Affair, The Christine Keeler Affair, Ich, Christine Keeler and Scandal '64) is a 1963 Danish film directed and written by Robert Spafford and starring Yvonne Buckingham, John Drew Barrymore and Alicia Brandet. The film dramatises the Profumo affair. [1] [2]
Stephen Thomas Ward (19 October 1912 – 3 August 1963) was an English osteopath and artist who was one of the central figures in the 1963 Profumo affair, a British political scandal which brought about the resignation of John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War, and contributed to the defeat of the Conservative government a year later.
The Profumo affair concerned John Profumo, the British Secretary of State for War, who, beginning in July 1961, had an extramarital affair with the model Christine Keeler. He denied this to the House of Commons in March 1963 when Keeler's private life became public; weeks later, he was found to have misled Parliament. [3]
Mariella Novotny (born Stella Marie Capes, 9 May 1941 – 1 February 1983) was an English socialite and prostitute who was part of Christine Keeler's social circle and mixed extensively with British establishment figures in the events leading up to the Profumo affair. [1] [2] [3] Novotny was born in Yorkshire in 1941. [4]
In the 1989 film Scandal about the Profumo affair, Gordon was portrayed by Leon Herbert. Gordon was portrayed by Ricardo Coke Thomas in Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical Stephen Ward the Musical, which opened at the Aldwych Theatre on 19 December 2013. Anthony Welsh acts the part of Lucky Gordon in the BBC series The Trial of Christine Keeler.