When 19-year-old showgirl Christine Keeler was introduced to British State Secretary for War John Profumo, none of them imagined how the affair would ...

The Profumo Affair was one of the biggest political dramas in British history. And now BBC drama, The Trial of Christine Keeler, has reimagined the scandal and captivated audiences over the last ...

THE PROFUMO AFFAIR brought down Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister after he covered up the scandal – but the PM’s reaction to the affair was coloured by his own wife’s infidelity which ...

News UK News Profumo 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 ...

Profumo Affair's Christine Keeler dies at 75 The former showgirl's affair with the secretary of state for war helped bring down the government in a notorious 1960s scandal.

A new book by a Cambridge historian claims that the Russian spy at the centre of the scandal was able to photograph top secret documents left out by John Profumo, after being let in to the ...

Former model Mandy Rice-Davies, one of the main figures in the 1960s Profumo affair, has died from cancer at the age of 70, her publicist says.

The Profumo affair can be put alongside the Suez Crisis of 1956 and death of Winston Churchill in 1965 as part of the post-war, cultural transition to a modern Britain.

It is half a century since John Profumo, Secretary of State for War, lied in the House of Commons about having an affair with the call girl Christine Keeler. The denial resulted in the exposure of ...

While the Petraeus Affair grows more alarming by the hour, it remains far from the worst military sex scandal in modern history. That honor may belong to the Profumo Affair in 1963, when British ...