It’s an everyday story, isn’t it? Teenage showgirl meets married Tory cabinet minister, and they give themselves over to passion while a spy from a hostile nation watch from the wings. This isn’t the latest hapless calamity to befall our current Government. I’m talking about the events that led to the trial of Stephen Ward in 1963.
By Jason Elliot, Editor, Halsbury's Laws
We all think we know the story – Ward was the well-connected society osteopath and amateur artist who introduced teen showgirl, Christine Keeler, to then Minister of War, John Profumo, at the outdoor pool at Lord Astor’s family estate, Cliveden. Keeler would later claim that in addition to Profumo and other undesirables, she had slept with a Soviet deputy naval attaché (and therefore spy), Yevgeny “Eugene” Ivanov.
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