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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.
Mandy Rice-Davies was a key figure in the Profumo affair, a notorious British political scandal of the 1960s. While giving evidence at the trial of Stephen Ward, ...
Keeler left Ward after a few months to become the mistress of the property dealer Peter Rachman, [14] [n 2] and later shared lodgings with Mandy Rice-Davies, a fellow Murray's dancer two and a half years her junior. The two girls left Murray's and attempted without success to pursue careers as freelance models.
– Jonesey95 16:56, 7 December 2023 (UTC) Contemporary culture seems dedicated to the proposition that outrage is a desirable emotion and should be sought at every opportunity. Smallchief 11:20, 8 December 2023 (UTC) You misspelled her name on the fake CV; it's Rice-Davies, not Rice-Davis.
"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.
During the 1963 Profumo affair, Astor was accused of having an affair with Mandy Rice-Davies. In response to being told during one of the trials arising out of the scandal that Astor had denied having an affair with her, Rice-Davies famously replied, " Well he would, wouldn't he?
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.