Secrets and Lies

Christine Keeler''s name is as synonymous with the sixties sexual revolution as the Pill. Having found fame and success as a model—the portrait of her naked astride a chair is iconic—her short affair with the Minister for War, John Profumo, led to his downfall and the end of Harold Macmillan''s Conservative government, and was at the heart of the social and political earthquake that followed. She ...