[BITList] Do you remember Christine Keeler? See her today!

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>                     There is a cliché’ which was created since this
>                     happened in England.
>                     Quote “She was the greatest carpenter in the
>                     world” unquote. You may ask why? Because it only
>                     took one Screw to bring down the Government.”
>                     *Beauty: Keeler in her prime back in 1964*
>                     *Christine Keeler back in 1964*
>                     *In an interview last year to publicize her latest
>                     book about the affair that rocked the British
>                     Establishment, she said: ‘My children don’t want
>                     to be associated with that 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 John Profumo, the then
>                     Conservative Minister for War, and Yevgeny Ivanov,
>                     a naval attaché based at the Russian Embassy in
>                     London.*
>                     *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 rumors 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./*
>                     *The 71-year-old pensioner pictured below dressed
>                     in a shapeless top and sandals and pulling a
>                     plastic shopping trolley is Christine Keeler.*
>                     *This is the first time she has been photographed
>                     in public for over seven years.*
>                     *She is almost unrecognizable from the fresh-faced
>                     model and showgirl who found herself embroiled in
>                     the biggest political scandal in modern times.*
>                     *It is difficult to imagine that she was once one
>                     of the world’s most photographed – and infamous –
>                     beauties. Sadly, time has not been kind to her.*
>                     Humble lifestyle: The former model Christine
>                     Keeler pictured out shopping near her home
>                     */Miss Keeler now lives in a sheltered
>                     accommodation block in South London, and is
>                     estranged from her two sons./*
>                     **
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