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John Dennis Profumo CBE PC (/ p r ə ˈ f juː m oʊ / prə-FEW-moh; 30 January 1915 – 9 March 2006) was a British politician whose career ended in 1963 after a sexual relationship with the 19-year-old model Christine Keeler in 1961.
Aug 27, 2024 · John Profumo was a British politician and philanthropist who was the central character in one of the U.K.’s most spectacular sex scandals of the 20th century. The affair helped bring down Britain’s government and led Profumo to devote the rest of his life to charity.
John Profumo, the 46-year-old Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, had an extramarital affair with the 19-year-old model Christine Keeler beginning in 1961. Profumo denied the affair in a statement to the House of Commons in 1963; weeks later, a police investigation proved that he had lied.
Profumo affair, in British history, political and intelligence scandal in the early 1960s that helped topple the Conservative Party government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Involving sex, a Russian spy, and the secretary of state for war, the scandal captured the attention of the British public.
Mar 11, 2006 · LONDON, March 10 - John Profumo, whose highflying political career in Britain ended in a cold war scandal of sex and espionage that gave way to a lifetime of atonement, died about midnight on...
Jan 15, 2021 · Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, had admitted to having an extra-marital affair. Not only that, but he had lied about it in the House of Commons. The woman he had slept with was called Christine Keeler.
Sep 21, 2017 · Christine Keeler and John Profumo were at the centre of the most sensationalised sex scandal of the Sixties. Here, GQ reveals the full story.
John Profumo was forced to resign as Secretary of State for War in 1963 after he admitted lying to the Commons when he denied any "impropriety" with a young model, Christine...
Mar 10, 2006 · John Profumo, who was at the centre of one of the UK's most famous political scandals, has died at the age of 91. John Profumo's public life was dramatically split into two parts:...
Jan 28, 2020 · Profumo scandal evidence still secret in 'cover-up'. UK Politics. 1 Feb 2020. Stephen Pound's role as 'gopher' to Stephen Ward. Today in Parliament. Ex-Labour MP collected pills Ward used to take ...
