Christine Keeler

Christine Keeler Christine Keeler was the woman at the centre of the Profumo scandal in the 1960s. Beautiful perhaps beyond her means, despite the frenzy of free love her story is unflaggingly bleak. An abortion at 16, held captive and raped twice by an infatuated madman, shot at by a jealous lover, imprisoned for perjury, disowned by her mother and one of her sons, the rest of her life saw her bear a stigma that resulted in society shunning her. The new truths are, essentially, that she became pregnant by Profumo and that Stephen Ward was a Russian spy who tried to kill her. Her most damning verdict, though, is on Lord Denning, appointed to investigate the scandal, whom she claims ignored her evidence as part of an official cover-up operation that damned her as a prostitute and the affair as a sex rather than security issue. The official papers will remain locked up until 2046, and until then, Keeler's truth will appear both plausible and frustratingly unverifiable. ENTER HERE