The ‘Profumo Affair,’ as it would come to be known, was set in a '60s Britain that was definitely not yet “swinging.” When events began in 1961, the food rationing instigated during World War II had ...

The scandal is named for John Profumo, the U.K.'s onetime secretary of state for war. Profumo had a five-month affair with Christine Keeler , a sex worker and sometimes model, in 1961.

The Profumo Affair brought down the Tory government of the time. An investigation in September 1963, chaired by Lord Denning, found national security was not breached, ...

The death of the disgraced former British secretary for war, John Profumo, at age 91, reminded me of my first intervention in the public affairs of my country. I was 14 at the time, and it was just ...

Profumo denied the affair in the House of Commons in March 1963, but in June he was found to have been lying. Ward later faced charges of immorality as, although Keeler was not a prostitute, ...

“An English Affair,” a reexamination of the Profumo Affair by Richard Davenport-Hines that last month won the Paddy Power Political Book Award for best political history, is a strong entrant ...

The “Profumo affair” has been revisited in popular culture numerous times over the years, with adaptations including a 1989 film, Scandal, starring Ian McKellen and a 2013 Andrew Lloyd-Webber ...

Mollie Panter-Downes on the affair between John Profumo and Christine Keeler, which brought down the government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.

LONDON (AP) — Christine Keeler, the central figure in the sex-and-espionage Profumo scandal that rocked Cold War Britain, has died at 75. Her son, Seymour Platt, posted on Facebook that Keele… ...

How the sex and scandal of the Profumo affair left very few of its key players unharmed The shockwaves which so damaged Christine Keeler resulted in resignations, court cases, more jail terms ...