When the love triangle came to light two years later, fears of a Cold War security leak sparked a lurid scandal that rocked the government and had the public transfixed for months. On December 6, it was announced that Keeler had died the previous night after battling against the lung disease COPD for several months. Platt said she was at the Princess Royal university hospital in Farnborough at the time of her death. His first sight of her was when she climbed naked out of the swimming pool during at a party at Lord Astor's country house Cliveden.
They began an affair that lasted from a few weeks to several months, according to various accounts. At the same time, Christine was sleeping with diplomat Yevgeny Ivanov, an intelligence officer and the Soviet Union's naval attache in London. Some accounts claim MI5 hoped to use Keeler as a "honey trap" to persuade Ivanov to defect, and were alarmed when they found out she was also seeing Profumo. They warned the minister off being associated with Ward's seedy circle, and he ended the affair.
It remained hidden from the public until when her disintegrating love life thrust her into the spotlight. A jealous boyfriend, Lucky Gordon, fired bullets at Ward's front door as she hid inside, and the subsequent Old Bailey trial caused rumours to swirl in Westminster.
Following her release, she went on to get married twice and have two children. I was born 10 years after these events. But the woman I knew she was a devoted mum. She was quite a character, who was eccentric, funny and loved driving. We would laugh so much. I would like people to remember her more fondly. She was a woman of her time — it was a different time.
Profumo was a British Politician who served as the Secretary of State for War in the Conservative government at the time of the scandal. The government minister married actress Valerie Hobson in But in , he embarked on a brief affair with Christine Keeler after they were introduced to each other by their mutual acquaintance, Stephen Ward. He introduced her to a party scene attended by aristocrats and VIPs, and through him, in , she met both Profumo, then 46 and secretary of state for war, and the Russian military attache Yevgeny Ivanov, having affairs with both men.
When the relationships came to light in , amid fears of a cold war security leak, the scandal rocked the Harold Macmillan government. Eventually, after more newspaper stories emerged, he admitted lying to the house, and resigned from the cabinet and the Commons. His fall from grace was deemed a contributory factor in the fall of the Macmillan government, with Labour winning under Harold Wilson in Ward would later be convicted of living off immoral earnings, with Keeler and Rice-Davies as the main witnesses, but he took a fatal overdose before the jury returned their guilty verdict in August At the height of the Profumo affair, Keeler gave newspaper interviews and also posed for the now famous photograph of her sitting naked on a chair.
Shots were fired into the home of Ward, where Keeler was temporarily seeking refuge. When she was questioned during the subsequent police investigation, details of the affair became public.
At the end of , Keeler was sentenced to nine months in prison for perjury in a case brought against Gordon, where she accused him of assault.
She spent six months in Holloway prison. It made her very vulnerable and extremely mistrusting of men. It did pull the curtain back, and there were changes in society that were needed. He said she was a devoted, loving mother.
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