John Profumo, a rising British political leader who fell into disrepute when his affair with a young prostitute was exposed in the 1960s in one of the country's most notorious government scandals ...

VALERIE HOBSON's husband John Profumo's infidelities "changed" their son after he began to view them in a "curious" way, unearthed accounts reveal.

Wealthy, handsome and married to a film star, John Profumo was near the top of Britain's social and political stratum in the early 1960s.

You could say that John Profumo was cancelled. He began like so many others in the 20th century British aristocracy. The son of a London insurance magnate, Profumo attended the prestigious Harrow ...

John Profumo was a rich man of aristocratic Italian descent, elected to parliament while young (he was one of the MPs who voted to replace Neville Chamberlain by Winston Churchill). As secretary for ...

John Profumo was highly regarded by the party chairman, Lord Woolton, and well placed to resume his political career, which he did by winning Stratford-upon-Avon in the 1950 general election.

News UK News Christine Keeler 'John Profumo wasn't the real victim in scandal - it was me', says Christine Keeler In her own brutally honest words Christine Keeler, before her death aged 75 in ...

JOHN Profumo’s affair with a Soho showgirl forced him to resign amid a scandal involving sex, Cold War espionage and suicide. Following the death of Christine Keeler at the age of 75, and wit… ...

John Profumo, who died on Thursday night aged 91, was associated in most people's minds with the scandal that bore his name and led him to resign from the Conservative government of Harold ...

It’s one of Britain’s most notorious political scandals of the 20th century: the Profumo affair. The 1960s public imbroglio involved U.K. Secretary of State for War John Profumo’s ...

Three years before John Profumo resigned in disgrace from Harold Macmillan's government, the then War Secretary was being urged to confront the Queen.