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The Profumo affair was a major scandal in British politics during the early 1960s. John Profumo, ... Christine Keeler, Mandy Rice-Davies, and Lord Astor
Janet Elizabeth Astor (born 1 December 1961); she married the Earl of March and Kinrara, later the 11th Duke of Richmond, on 30 November 1991. Pauline Marian Astor (born 26 March 1964) Astor died in Nassau, Bahamas, aged 58 from a heart attack [3] and was buried in the Octagon Temple at Cliveden. [4] His son succeeded him in the viscountcy.
Marilyn Foreman (21 October 1944 – 18 December 2014), better known as Mandy Rice-Davies, was a Welsh model and showgirl best known for her association with Christine Keeler and her role in the Profumo affair, which discredited the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963.
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]
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On the weekend of 8–9 July 1961, Ward introduced Keeler to John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War, at a pool party at Cliveden, the Buckinghamshire mansion owned by the 3rd Viscount Astor. Profumo began a brief affair with Keeler, the exact length of which is disputed.
The story involves John Profumo, a married Secretary of State for War and a young mistress of a suspected Russian spy (whom Profumo first encountered when she was swimming nude in the Cliveden pool).
While giving evidence at the trial of Stephen Ward, charged with living off the immoral earnings of Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies, Rice-Davies (18 years old at that time) made the remark for which she is now best remembered: when the defence counsel, James Burge, pointed out that Lord Astor denied an affair or having even met her, she ...