Christine Keeler was the woman at the centre of the Profumo scandal in the 1960s, which led to the downfall of Harold Macmillan's government. Keeler was tried for alleged perjury and briefly jailed. For the first time, she tells her side of the story.
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Christine Keeler was the woman at the centre of the Profumo scandal in the 1960s, which led to the downfall of Harold Macmillan's government. Keeler was tried for alleged perjury and briefly jailed. For the first time, she tells her side of the story.
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In the late 1960s, Christine Keeler was only 17 when she left her small village in the Thames Valley for London. Becoming a showgirl at Murrays Night Club, she was quickly seduced by the hedonistic life, meeting Stephen Ward, Osteopath, and moving in with him in what she terms a platonic relationship, while being taught the sophistications and 'laissez faire' of the good life, meeting Government Ministers, aristocrats, drug dealers and the wealthy and the takers. Her story has been well documented in the tabloids of her life of loose living, her many affairs, and the scandal that rocked the British Government, but what was not written about was the spy ring she alleges Stephen Ward ran, meeting with Government Ministers and Russian spies in his flat in London, and at his rented cottage in the grounds of Clivedon, the mansion belonging to Lord Astor. It is often uncomfortable reading, especially the description of the sexual romps and the lack of community among her friends, and it is as well to be reminded that Keeler was not even 21 when the Profumo affair and her concurrent liaison with Russian Naval Attache, Eugene Ivanov broke through the media.
What is not easy to comprehend is just why the author repeatedly went back into situations which had already been shown as dangerous and even life-threatening. At times she seemed entirely careless of her safety, but her desire to tell all at this time is understandable in the light of relevant files and documents at last having been released.
It is often gripping reading, although the author does get a bit bogged down with who-went-where-when, so that the 'tangled-wool' feel does somewhat flag the interest, but a true story such as hers doesn't come along too often and this one's worth reading about.
