[iowamark]

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[lee martell]

I knew nothing of this before. The characters and costumes change, but the story remains the same.

[OttawaFreeper]

I have a 1989 issue of Playboy that had an article about her. The writer confessed to having a big crush on Brigitte Bardot but after learning about Christine, Brigitte seemed to be not as real, lol. Believe that article discussed the new movie at the time “Scandal” that dealt with Keeler and intrigue she was involved in.

[clintonh8r]

I remember all of this quite well. The other player was Mandy Rice-Davies.

[safeasthebanks]

Pretty good movie about this affair. Think it was called “Scandal”. Starred John Hurt I think.

[BenLurkin]

“Where have all the swinging Londoners gone?”

[colorado tanker]

IIRC Profumo first noticed her when he went to a country house for a party and spotted her swimming nude in the pool. A real looker back in the day.

[wardaddy]

I lusted for the actress who played her.....

[familyop]

Now a candidate for appearing half naked and touted as sexy on the side column of a British tabloid.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. I remember the names but know nothing about it. Interesting. Thanks to all posters.

History BUMP!

[yarddog]

I remember it very well.

First time I ever heard the words, “call girl”. At least they were pretty which I can’t say for some of the girls involved in more recent scandals.

[PGR88]

Hardly anything is said about Yevgeny Ivanov. According to him, his affair with Keeler wasn’t reported to his bosses in Moscow, because it was just a private fling. His wife left him over the affair, so who knows.

He was recalled to the USSR in 1962, well before the Profumo affair broke. Seems like he had dibs on Keeler first.

[ComradeBork]

And one day Macmillan was coming downstairs,
A voice in the dark caught him unawares
It was Christine Keeler blowing him a kiss
He said "I never believed it could happen like this
But oh, every time I look at you
I feel so low I don't know what to do
Well every day just seems to bring bad news
Leaves me here with the post World War Two Blues"

Al Stewart, Post World War Two Blues

[Snickering Hound]

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I don’t really recall the details because well, times were different and I was a fair tad younger at the time, but this was the hottest of hot salacious “hottie brings down a government” scandals. Kind of interesting that her death brings it up at this particular time.

[miss marmelstein]

I was always fascinated with photos of her. When politicians’ girlfriends looked good.

[central_va]

Always like a little overbite in a woman. It’s a good look.

[BlueLancer]

I was a post-war baby in a small Scots town,
I was three years old when we moved down south;
Hard times written in my mother's looks,
With her widow's pension and her ration books.
Aneurin Bevan took the miners' cause
To the the House of Commons in his coal dust voice;
We were locked up, safe and warm from the snow,
With "Life with the Lyons" on the radio.
And Churchill said to Louis Mountbatten.
"I just can't stand to see you today.
How could you have gone and given India away?"
Mountbatten just frowned and said "What can I say?
Some of these things slip through your hands,
And there's no good talking or making plans"
But Churchill, he just flapped his wings
And said "I don't really care to discuss these things.,

But, oh, every time I look at you,
I feel so low I don't know what to do.
Well every day just seems to bring bad news,
And leaves me here with the Post World War Two Blues",

1959 was a very strange time:
A bad year for Labour and a good year for wine;
Uncle Ike was our American pal,
And nobody talked about the Suez Canal.
I can still remember the last time I cried,
The day that Buddy Holly died;
I never met him, so it may seem strange,
But some people just affect you that way.
But, all in all, it was good
There even seemed to be an optimistic mood,
While TW3 sat and laughed at it all,
'Til some began to see the cracks in the walls.
And, one day, Macmillan was coming downstairs,
A voice in the dark caught him unawares;
It was Christine Keeler blowing him a kiss,
He said "I never believed it could happen like this.
But oh, every time I look at you,
I feel so low I don't know what to do;
And every day just seems to bring bad news,
Leaves me here with the post World War Two Blues".

I came up to London when I was nineteen,
With a corduroy jacket and a head full of dreams;
In coffee bars I spent my nights,
Reading Allen Ginsberg, talking civil rights.
The day Robert Kennedy got shot down,
The world was wearing a deeper frown,
And though I knew that we'd lost a friend,
I always believed we would win in the end;
'Cause music was the scenery:
Jimi Hendrix played loud and free,
Sergeant Pepper was real to me,
Songs and poems were all you needed.
Which way did the sixties go?
Now Ramona's in Desolation Row,
And where I'm going I hardly know,
It surely wasn't like this before.

But, oh, every time I look around,
I feel so low my head seems underground;
Well, every day just seems to bring bad news,
Leaves me here with the Post World War Two Blues.

Oh, every time I look at you,
I feel so low I don't know what to do;
Well, every day just seems to bring bad news,
Leaves me here with the post World War Two Blues.

Al Stewart, "Post-World War II Blues"

[montag813]

It was considered to be a factor behind the fall of the government led by Harold Macmillan, which was replaced by a Labour government in 1964 led by Harold Wilson.

It was Wilson's government which began the disastrous immigration policies that plague the UK today

[ought-six]

Mandy Rice Davies was the pretty one.