Wednesday 5 June marks the 50th anniversary of the resignation of the Conservative War Minister John Profumo – the culmination of a series of revelations that we now call the Profumo Affair.

The Profumo affair, involving teenaged Christine Keeler and U.K. Secretary of State for War John Profumo, is among the most notorious political scandals of the 20th century in Britain. Keeler's ...

John Profumo met Christine Keeler at Cliveden in 1961, precipitating a political scandal when the story emerged two years later The country house where one of post-war Britain's biggest political ...

Although she doesn’t realise it at the time, John Profumo (Ben Miles) also saw her at the club, although it’s another year before they meet. While this is a story about Christine, Stephen Ward ...

A newly-released FBI memo has suggested Prince Phillip could have been involved in the Profumo affair. The historic sex-scandal involved John Profumo, the then 46-year-old Secretary of State for ...