Christine Keeler
Christine Keeler
Christine Margaret Keeleris an English former model and showgirl. Her meeting at a dance-club with society osteopath Stephen Ward drew her into fashionable circles, and she became sexually involved with a married government minister John Profumo, as well as a Soviet diplomat, at the height of the Cold War. A shooting incident between two of her other lovers caused the press to investigate her, revealing that her affairs could be threatening national security. In the House of Commons, Profumo denied...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionModel
Date of Birth2 February 1942
He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.
I don't know if he was the fourth man or the fifth, but he was certainly in the top 10.
They came and bound me up and I had awful stretch marks. I hated my breasts after that.
I won't say I didn't like it at the time, the sex, that is, because I wouldn't have let him do it at all if that had been the case.
One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.
Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.
We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.
Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.
I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.
I like to think that people live on in other people's memories.
As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.
However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.
Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.
It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.