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CLOUDS OF SCANDAL
Over the decades, much has been written about Britain’s most famous political sex scandal, in which John Profumo, the secretary of state for war, was disgraced as a result of his relationship with a 19-year-old party girl. Now, nearly 40 years later, the woman in question, CHRISTINE KEELER, tells of a naïve young girl’s entanglements with a philandering politician and a Soviet spy—from the summer night in 1961 when she met Profumo at William Astor’s Cliveden estate to her never-before-revealed pregnancy—and the powerful forces that turned an extramarital fling into the Profumo Affair
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CLOUDS OF SCANDAL
Over the decades, much has been written about Britain’s most famous political sex scandal, in which John Profumo, the secretary of state for war, was disgraced as a result of his relationship with a 19-year-old party girl. Now, nearly 40 years later, the woman in question, CHRISTINE KEELER, tells of a naïve young girl’s entanglements with a philandering politician and a Soviet spy—from the summer night in 1961 when she met Profumo at William Astor’s Cliveden estate to her never-before-revealed pregnancy—and the powerful forces that turned an extramarital fling into the Profumo Affair
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