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Ward informed the Pictorial that Keeler's story was largely false and threatened to sue if it was printed, whereupon the paper withdrew its offer, although Keeler kept the £200. [61] Keeler then gave details of her affair with Profumo to a police officer, who did not pass on this information to MI5 or the legal authorities.
On the weekend of 8–9 July 1961, Ward introduced Keeler to John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War, at a pool party at Cliveden, the Buckinghamshire mansion owned by the 3rd Viscount Astor. Profumo began a brief affair with Keeler, the exact length of which is disputed.
Stephen Thomas Ward (19 October 1912 – 3 August 1963) was an English osteopath and artist who was one of the central figures in the 1963 Profumo affair, a British political scandal which brought about the resignation of John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War, and contributed to the defeat of the Conservative government a year later.
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The exact length of the affair between Profumo and Keeler is disputed, ending either in August 1961 after Profumo was warned by the security services of the possible dangers of mixing with the Ward circle, or continuing with decreasing fervour until December 1961.
The Christine Keeler Story (also known as The Keeler Affair, The Christine Keeler Affair, Ich, Christine Keeler and Scandal '64) is a 1963 Danish film directed and written by Robert Spafford and starring Yvonne Buckingham, John Drew Barrymore and Alicia Brandet. The film dramatises the Profumo affair. [1] [2]
Keeler gives evidence against Edgecombe at his pre-trial hearing. Keeler is encouraged against Ward's wishes to sell her story to the Mirror group of newspapers, Rice-Davies having already done so. Keeler is shocked to find the press know that she had tried and failed as a 16-year-old to abort her baby early in her pregnancy.
17 Wimpole Mews was the home of the osteopath Stephen Ward (1912–1963) [4] in the early 1960s. He acted as "landlord" to Christine Keeler (1942–2017) [ 5 ] and Mandy Rice-Davies (1944–2014). Keeler had affairs with the politician John Profumo (1915–2006), Secretary of State for War , and the Soviet naval attaché and spy Captain Yevgeny ...