Rip Christine Keeler.

[Vaughan]

I met her a few times in the late 60s, when she moved to Norfolk and had a flat just across the road from the Town House in Thorpe. She was a friend of Alan Pye, of the Cumberland Hotel, and sometimes came into the club bar in the Town House for a drink on a Saturday evening. Sexy lady, she was!

I suppose the Profumo affair should remind us that sex scandals about ministers are nothing new!

[HEM]

I challenge anyone to do what John Profumo did after his fall.   From Wikipedia:

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Shortly after his resignation Profumo began to work as a volunteer cleaning toilets at Toynbee Hall, a charity based in the East End of London, and continued to work there for the rest of his life.

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Profumo's charity work redeemed his reputation. His friend, social reform campaigner Lord Longford said he "felt more admiration [for Profumo] than [for] all the men I've known in my lifetime".

 

[StillCruising]

RIP Christine.

As the song says 'Nothing Has Been Proved'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HOfaSSIVcE

 

 

[Hylander]

Nigella always reminds me of Christine in her looks when she was younger.

[Vaughan]

The Profumo affair was said to have taken place around the swimming pool at Clivedon, the seat of the Astor family, overlooking the banks of the Thames at Cookham.

I am reminded of what is said to be a true story :

Lady Astor was one of the first women, between the wars, to become an MP, and she campaigned for a Conservative seat in Portsmouth. As this was a naval town, it was considered in-appropriate that she should be be on her own, knocking on doors, without an escort. She was therefore accorded a senior naval officer to escort her, and he was a Captain, in uniform.

One day she knocked on the door of a terraced house in Southsea and a little girl opened the door. 

"Hello little girl; is your mother at home?"

"No, she's gorn shopping, but she said that if a lady called with a sailor, I was to take five Pounds, and give them the front bedroom."

[JennyMorgan]

What I find so incredibly sad about Christine was her demise. I well remember the then innovative fashion photographs of her

Many years later I was to briefly meet the lady with regard to a photoshoot that was regretfully aborted. Certainly not the lady who's pictures I had admired in my formative years.

[Gracie]

 She could have been so much more than someone who earned her money in doing what she did. I don't mean to sound judgemental but what a waste for someone so beautiful

Grace

[StillCruising]

Beautiful on the outside certainly, but I suspect damaged on the inside from a less than pleasant childhood which probably had an influence on her life choices.

[Polly]

Yes, there is pain in the eyes in the famous chair photo.