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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.
"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.
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 ...
"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 club was first opened in 1913, on the site of the old Blanchards restaurant at 1-7 Bleak Street, [2] by an American, Jack Mays, and an Englishman, Ernest A. Cordell. [3]
Alicia Brandet was an American actress known for her roles in commedia all'italiana films of the 1960s, including The Dolls (1965), I due evasi di Sing Sing (1964), and Weekend, Italian Style (1966).
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.
Mandy Rice-Davies, after whom the original essay and this counter-essay are named, in November 1964 at Schiphol Airport railway station, Netherlands. The Wikipedia essay WP:Mandy Rice-Davies applies, abbreviated as MANDY, argues that when Wikipedia articles about living public figures mention an accusation of bad behavior, Wikipedia does not necessarily need to include their denial.