[BITList] Fw: Who's old enough to remember Christine Keeler?

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On 10/28/2013 9:13 AM, x50type wrote:
> Who's old enough to remember Christine Keeler?
> ct
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>> *Who's old enough to remember Christine Keeler?*
>>
>>     Former model Christine Keeler, 71, is unrecognisable as she pulls
>>     shopping trolley 50 years after Profumo affair
>>
>>       * *Former showgirl was once one of the world's most
>>         photographed beauties*
>>       * *Her sexual liaisons with Tory Minister John Profumo and a
>>         Russian attache led to one of the biggest political scandals
>>         of modern times*
>>       * *She now lives in a sheltered accommodation block in South
>>         London*
>>
>>     Dressed in a shapeless top and sandals and pulling a plastic
>>     shopping trolley, it is difficult to imaginethat this woman was
>>     once one of the world’s most photographed – and infamous – beauties.
>>     But the pensioner pictured here is Christine Keeler. Her sexual
>>     liaisons 50 years ago with Tory Minister John Profumo and a
>>     Russian military attache based inLondonled to one of the biggest
>>     political scandals of modern times.
>>     This is the first time Keeler has been photographed in public for
>>     seven years, and the 71-year-old is unrecognisable from the
>>     fresh-faced model and showgirl who found herself embroiled in
>>     Profumo affair in 1963.
>>
>>
>>     Humble lifestyle: The former model Christine Keeler pictured out
>>     shopping near her home
>>     Humble lifestyle: The former model Christine Keeler pictured out
>>     shopping near her home
>>     Although she revelled in her notoriety at the time and sold her
>>     story to newspapers all over the world, Ms Keeler now lives in a
>>     sheltered accommodation block inSouth London, and is estranged from
>>     her two sons.
>>     Beauty: Keeler in her prime back in 1964
>>     Beauty: Keeler in her prime back in 1964
>>     In an interview last year to publicise her latest book about the
>>     affair that rocked the British Establishment, she said: ‘My
>>     children don’t want to be associated with that bloody whore
>>     Christine Keeler. It’s awful but that’s the way it is.’
>>     The scandal happened at the height of the Cold War when it was
>>     discovered that Keeler had been sleeping with both Profumo, the
>>     then Conservative Minister for War, and Yevgeny Ivanov, a naval
>>     attache based at the Russian Embassy inLondon.
>>     Keeler and Profumo began their affair after being introduced at a
>>     party at the Cliveden estate in 1961 by their mutual friend
>>     Stephen Ward, a high-society osteopath and portrait-painter.
>>     Profumo, who was married to actress Valerie Hobson, had no idea
>>     that Keeler was also sleeping with Ivanov. In March 1963 he told
>>     the House of Commons that rumours of his affair were untrue, but
>>     he was forced to resign three months later after admitting he had
>>     lied.
>>     Ward, who was prosecuted for living off immoral earnings, took an
>>     overdose the day before his trial ended and died on August 3,
>>     1963. Keeler was found guilty of unrelated perjury charges and
>>     was sentenced to nine months in prison.
>>     The passage of time has done little to diminish the public’s
>>     fascination with the scandal. Andrew Lloyd Webber has written a
>>     musical, Stephen Ward, due to open in December. It is understood
>>     Keeler declined to co-operate with the project.
>>

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