Christine Keeler, former model at heart of Profumo affair, dies at 75
Showgirl’s affairs with Russian diplomat and British MP John Profumo caused one of UK’s biggest scandals of 20th centuryChristine Keeler: a life in picturesChristine Keeler, the former model at the...
View ArticleChristine Keeler obituary: the woman at the heart of the Profumo affair
Model and showgirl at the centre of the scandal that rocked 1960s BritainThere were many victims of the Profumo affair, the sex and spying scandal that dominated the headlines in 1963, contributed to...
View Article'I am part of English history': Christine Keeler interview - archive, 13...
The Observer, 13 March 1983 Simon Hoggart talks to Christine Keeler about her second autobiographyChristine Keeler is now 41, and has just published her second autobiography. She and a girlfriend wrote...
View ArticleBeware of moving the church flower-stand | Brief letters
Christine Keeler | Needless hedgerow trimming | Labour councils | Church behaviour | TV cookery excessHow sad that your Christine Keeler obituary (6 December) should continue the misogyny directed at...
View ArticleEveryone in the Profumo scandal got redemption – except Christine Keeler |...
There has been so little understanding, then or now, of the victimhood of the woman at the heart of a story that so many powerful men profited fromChristine Keeler is dead, and I hope the obituaries...
View ArticleLetter: Christine Keeler obituary
In the early 1970s, the Guardian kremlinologist Victor Zorza threw a party for colleagues from the paper’s features section and friends. One of the guests was Christine Keeler , who was the Chelsea...
View ArticleMr Profumo clears the air - archive, 23 March 1963
23 March 1963: Rumours about friendship with Miss Christine Keeler refuted by John Profumo, secretary of state for war In the face of what had been said in the House on Thursday, Mr John Profumo, the...
View ArticleCan a £120m festival of culture save the UK post-Brexit?
If a nebulous celebration can’t bring us together, maybe borrowing art from the National Portrait Gallery will do the trickIt’s going to be party time in 2022, apparently. The government, I hear, is...
View ArticleThe Profumo affair … seen, at last, through the female gaze
Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies were dismissed as call girls in the 60s. A TV series now shows them as complex, vulnerable young womenThe great political scandal of the 60s, the Profumo affair,...
View ArticleProfumo: a scandal that keeps giving, even after 50 years
The Trial of Christine Keeler shows that even those of us alive in 1963 have much still to learnYou might not think, more than 50 years after it all happened, that there would be much more to say about...
View ArticleThe week in TV: Dracula, Doctor Who, The Trial of Christine Keeler and more
A splendid revamp of Dracula and real scares in Doctor Who restored faith in the BBC – until Miranda bounced backDracula (BBC One) | iPlayerDoctor Who (BBC One) | iPlayerThe Trial of Christine Keeler...
View ArticleStill waiting for the full story on the Profumo affair | Letters
Tim Luckhurst and Alf Dubs respond to an article by Martin KettleMartin Kettle notes that transcripts of the interviews carried out by Lord Denning during his 1963 Profumo inquiry have never been...
View ArticleConnecting the dots in the Profumo story | Letter
Stephen Dorril offers some clarity on the physical material relating to the scandalTranscripts of interviews for the Denning report may still exist as suggested in the Peter Hennessy book mentioned by...
View ArticleSo long but hopefully not goodbye to Gary Younge | Brief letters
Sir Archie Marshall | Gary Younge | English usage | Bag for lifeStephen Dorril (Letters, 9 January) is somewhat unfair to criticise the excellent Lord Parker for being determined to convict Stephen...
View ArticleAfter #MeToo, we can hear Christine Keeler’s real story | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
The BBC drama about the Profumo scandal upends the conventional narrative by offering us women’s perspectivesIn the second episode of the BBC drama The Trial of Christine Keeler, the voice of its...
View ArticleSophie Cookson on playing Christine Keeler: 'Her vilification was incredible'
She was the ‘floozie’ who brought down a minister. As The Trial of Christine Keeler retells the Profumo affair from the women’s point of view, its star talks sex, scandal and solidarityAny actor in...
View ArticleHow MI5 chiefs abandoned Stephen Ward to take the blame in Profumo scandal
Veteran journalist and friend of the society osteopath raises fresh questions of a cover-up in BBC Two documentaryWith each passing year, the scandal becomes murkier. As the success of the BBC One...
View ArticleTV tonight: the end of the affair in The Trial of Christine Keeler
Amanda Coe’s drama on the Profumo scandal reaches its finale and there is the true story of its reporting by Tom Mangold. Plus: the battle to Win the Wilderness in Alaska. Here’s what to watch this...
View ArticleThe week in TV: The Windermere Children; Auschwitz Untold: In Colour; Belsen:...
Public service broadcasters rose to the challenge of Holocaust remembrance day with an eloquent drama about survivors and two searing documentariesThe Windermere Children (BBC Two) | iPlayerAuschwitz...
View ArticleProfumo spy had weakness for women and drink, archives reveal
Files on Russian intelligence officer and ‘lady-killer’ Eugene Ivanov littered with reports of drunkennessEugene Ivanov, the Russian spy at the centre of the 1963 Profumo scandal, was a philandering...
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