Christine Keeler

Christine Keeler (born February 22, 1942) was an English model and showgirl. Her involvement with a British government minister discredited the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan in 1963, in what is known as the Profumo Affair.

In July of 1961, Ward introduced her to John Profumo, the British Secretary of State for War, at a pool party at Cliveden, the Buckinghamshire mansion owned by Lord Astor. Profumo entered into an affair with Keeler, not suspecting that she was also sleeping with Yevgeny Ivanov, a naval attaché at the embassy of the Soviet Union.

The affair was terminated by the government’s Cabinet Secretary, Sir Norman Brooke. Brook spoke to Profumo on the advice of Sir Roger Hollis, the head of MI5 . On 9 August 1961 Profumo wrote to Keeler advising her he could no longer see her.

Among Keeler’s collection of lovers were two West Indians – Aloysius ‘Lucky’ Gordon and Johnny Edgecombe. Gordon, with a previous criminal record, was infatuated with Keeler. Keeler alleged that he assaulted her in the street and held her captive for two days at one point. She filed charges but was persuaded to drop them by Gordon’s brother.

Etc., etc. – what a bitch!!!