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Saturday, December 28, 2019

The Profumo affair … seen, at last, through the female gaze

Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies were dismissed as call girls in the 60s. A TV series now shows them as complex, vulnerable young women

The great political scandal of the 60s, the Profumo affair, with its heady whiff of spies, sex and society cover-ups, is usually told through the stories of the men involved.

There was John Profumo, the rising political star who fell from grace only to find redemption in charity work; Harold Macmillan, the prime minister whose government was so damaged by the scandal that he resigned on grounds of ill-health only months after the story broke; Yevgeny Ivanov, the KGB officer rejected by his nation who turned to drink for solace; and Stephen Ward, the celebrity osteopath who killed himself after being convicted of living off immoral earnings.

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