Friday, April 5, 2019

Profumo affair model Christine Keeler / A life in pictures

Keeler in a photograph by Lewis Morley, who recounted his taking of the picture to the Guardian in 2002. She became famous for her role in the 1963 Profumo scandal that rocked the British establishment

Profumo affair model Christine Keeler: a life in pictures


Former model at centre of Profumo affair that shook politics in the 60s has died aged 75

TUE 5 DEC 2017

July 22, 1963 Christine Keeler, a principal witnesses in the vice charges case against osteopath Dr. Stephen Ward.

The model, right, with Ward

Then a teenage model, she had affairs with the Tory cabinet minister John Profumo and a Russian diplomat at the height of the cold war

The East End gangster Ronnie Kray sits on Keeler’s righthand side at a nightclub

Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies leave the Old Bailey after the first day of Stephen Ward’s trial in 1963. It was through Ward, an osteopath, that Keeler was introduced to Profumo

Keeler arrives at court in October 1963. A BBC series revisiting the scandal is due to start filming next year

Keeler leaves court with her solicitor. The Profumo scandal rocked the Harold Macmillan government

Christine Keeler in 1964

Keeler, left, with the photographer David Bailey, the model Penelope Tree and the singer Marianne Faithfull, right, in 1969

21 Year Old Christine Keeler Pictured With Robin Drury On The Day Aloysius ‘lucky’ Gordon Was Sentenced To Three Years Imprisonment For Assaulting Her.

Keeler suffered from the lung disease COPD and had been ill for several months before her death

Christine Keeler, key figure in the 1963 Profumo Scandal which rocked the government, wearing a swimsuit as she walks along a beach, 1963 (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images) Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images
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