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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.
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.
Keeler was born in Uxbridge, Middlesex.Her father, Colin Sean Keeler (later known as Colin King, 1921–1976), [3] abandoned the family in 1945. She was brought up by her mother, Julie Ellen (née Payne, 1923–2012), [4] [5] and stepfather, Edward Huish, in a house made from two converted railway carriages in the Berkshire village of Wraysbury.
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 ...
Mariella Novotny (born Stella Marie Capes, 9 May 1941 – 1 February 1983) was an English socialite and prostitute who was part of Christine Keeler's social circle and mixed extensively with British establishment figures in the events leading up to the Profumo affair. [1] [2] [3] Novotny was born in Yorkshire in 1941. [4]
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.
In the 1989 film Scandal about the Profumo affair, Gordon was portrayed by Leon Herbert. Gordon was portrayed by Ricardo Coke Thomas in Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical Stephen Ward the Musical, which opened at the Aldwych Theatre on 19 December 2013. Anthony Welsh acts the part of Lucky Gordon in the BBC series The Trial of Christine Keeler.
Keeler's subsequent affair with Profumo went on at a time when she was also having sex with Ivanov. This was at a time when Cold War tensions were already heightened, just 15 months before the Cuban Missile Crisis. Ward and Ivanov are said to have asked Keeler to quiz Profumo as to when American nuclear missiles would be taken to then-West ...