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unusual facts about Profumo Affair


The Broadside Tapes 1

It also included a song about the Profumo affair ("Christine Keeler") and it closed with a live cover of The Beatles' "I Should Have Known Better" (retitled "I Shoulda Known Better") featuring Eric Andersen on harmony vocals and harmonica.


Ad hominem

Mandy Rice-Davies's famous testimony during the Profumo Affair, "Well, he would say that, wouldn't he?", is an example of a valid circumstantial argument.

Aloysius Gordon

Edgecombe's frustrations in seeking protection from Keeler following this fight led to the shooting at Stephen Ward's flat in December 1962 that set in motion a chain of events that would eventually result in the public revelations of the Profumo Affair.

David Profumo

Profumo's book Bringing the House Down, covered the scandal brought about by his father's affair with Christine Keeler.

Joyce Blair

This record was referring to Christine Keeler, known in those days as being a crucial figure in the Profumo affair.

Pillow talk

Pillow talk is conventionally seen as an opportunity for spies to obtain secret information, as Christine Keeler is said to have done in the Profumo Affair.

Ralph Whitworth

Although he won an award for his work on the Profumo Affair and even got a vote in the newspaper's Man of the Century poll (he swore he didn't vote for himself), lifetime membership of the Playboy Club (never taken up) and gained a reputation as a cartoonists' cartoonist, the man himself remained private.

Valerie Mewes

Stephen Ward, who was to become one of the central figures in the 1963 Profumo Affair, claims to have met Mewes in a doorway in Oxford Street during a thunderstorm at night.


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