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
Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.
I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.
It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.
Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.
We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.
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.
One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.
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.
They came and bound me up and I had awful stretch marks. I hated my breasts after that.
I don't know if he was the fourth man or the fifth, but he was certainly in the top 10.
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.