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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.
She has written two radio plays, The Confessions (2009) and Against the Grain (2010), both broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her most recent play was a Radio 4 docu-drama to mark the 50th anniversary of the Profumo Scandal, entitled Well, He Would, Wouldn't He (2013), and featuring Mandy Rice-Davies. She has also written musical theatre pieces.
"Well he would, wouldn't he?", [n 1] occasionally referenced as Mandy Rice-Davies Applies (shortened to MRDA), is a British political phrase and aphorism that is commonly used as a retort to a self-interested denial. The Welsh model Mandy Rice-Davies used the phrase while giving evidence during the 1963 trial of the English osteopath Stephen Ward.
Ms Goodwin had earlier appeared to quote Mandy Rice-Davies’s infamous quote about the Profumo scandal when asked about Mr Korski’s denials. “He would say that, wouldn’t he?” she told the ...
Neran Persaud as Emil Savundra, a notorious swindler treated by Ward and who met Keeler and Rice-Davies. Amanda Drew as Julie Ellen Payne, Keeler's mother. Tim McInnerny as Martin Redmayne MP, the Chief Whip of the ruling Conservative Party. Michael Maloney as Viscount Astor, with whom Rice-Davies claimed in court to have had sexual intercourse.
This became immortalized as "Mandy Rice-Davies applies" or MRDA. It's used to point out that the subject of an accusation has essentially no credibility (what we here on Wikipedia would call "is not a reliable source" ) when denying the accusation, because it's obviously in their own interests to deny it regardless of whether that denial is true.
"Well he would, wouldn't he?" is an aphorism that is commonly used as a retort to a self-interested denial. It was said by the model Mandy Rice-Davies (pictured) while giving evidence at the 1963 trial of Stephen Ward, who had been accused of living off money paid to Rice-Davies and her friend Christine Keeler for sex: part of the larger Profumo affair.
The lyrics of the song describe in roughly chronological order the actual course of events and mention, by first name only, the main characters involved: Mandy Rice-Davies, Christine Keeler and Stephen Ward, as well as Lucky Gordon, Johnny Edgecombe and Vickie Barrett.