Profumo affair model Christine Keeler: a life in pictures | UK news
Profumo affair model Christine Keeler: a life in pictures
Former model at centre of Profumo affair that shook politics in the 60s has died aged 75
Main image: Christine Keeler, key figure in the 1963 Profumo Scandal which rocked the government, wearing a swimsuit as she walks along a beach, 1963 (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images) Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty ImagesTue 5 Dec 2017 14.10 EST Last modified on Wed 6 Dec 2017 13.17 EST
Keeler in a photograph by Lewis Morley, who recounted his taking of the picture to the Guardian in 2002. She became famous for her role in the 1963 Profumo scandal that rocked the British establishment Photograph: Lewis Morley/Sloane
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterJuly 22, 1963 Christine Keeler, a principal witnesses in the vice charges case against osteopath Dr. Stephen Ward. Photograph: stf/AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterThe model, right, with Ward Photograph: Express/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterThen a teenage model, she had affairs with the Tory cabinet minister John Profumo and a Russian diplomat at the height of the cold war Photograph: Sharok Hatami/REX/Shutterstock
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterThe East End gangster Ronnie Kray sits on Keeler’s righthand side at a nightclub Photograph: Express Newspapers/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterKeeler and Mandy Rice-Davies leave the Old Bailey after the first day of Stephen Ward’s trial in 1963. It was through Ward, an osteopath, that Keeler was introduced to Profumo Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORB
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterKeeler arrives at court in October 1963. A BBC series revisiting the scandal is due to start filming next year Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterKeeler leaves court with her solicitor. The Profumo scandal rocked the Harold Macmillan government Photograph: John Twine/Daily Mail / Rex
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterChristine Keeler in 1964 Photograph: Sharokh Hatami/REX/Shutterstock
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterKeeler, left, with the photographer David Bailey, the model Penelope Tree and the singer Marianne Faithfull, right, in 1969 Photograph: Express Newspapers/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter21 Year Old Christine Keeler Pictured With Robin Drury On The Day Aloysius ‘lucky’ Gordon Was Sentenced To Three Years Imprisonment For Assaulting Her. Photograph: ANL/REX/Shutterstock
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterKeeler suffered from the lung disease COPD and had been ill for several months before her death Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images
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