Also sharing her bed was Yevgeny Ivanov, a senior naval attaché, and spy, at the Soviet Embassy in London. When Keeler was interviewed, she used the term “nuclear payload,” a term not used by the general public at the time. It was clear that John...

But perhaps the most instructive example of the separation of public political life from personal or private life is to be found in the so-called "Profumo scandal" in Britain in the early sixties. John Profumo, Secretary of State for War in Prime...

We can’t help but wonder if Lindsay’s photo is a tribute to the series of iconic chair-straddling picture taken of famous 1960s prostitute Christine Keeler. Christine was a London call girl who famously had an affair with married British War Secretary...

Thus, he became one of the central figures in the 1963 Profumo affair, a public scandal which profoundly embarrassed the Conservative government of the day. In 1961, Stephen had introduced the married cabinet minister John Profumo to a showgirl called...