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For a time Christine Keeler was one of the most famous people in the world. The part she played in British history in the early 1960's is arguable still with us today as the Profumo Affair shone a light on the then untouchable ruling class. They lied when they got caught having affairs and some of that some of that old deference was blown away. The print press came out of the scandal with much more muscle as newspaper sales rocketed, political satire became mainstream, "Private Eye" or "That Was the Week that Was", after the button down 1950's everyone was talking and even joking about sex. It's cultural impact was profound as it kicked off the "Swinging Sixties". Politically it brought down a Government, the scandal showed the Prime Minister, Harold McMillan, as being out of touch and soon after the scandal he resigned and they lost power.
There are lots of characters in the melting pot of 1960's London involved in her story. This timeline aims to be as comprehensive as possible without judgement or conspiracy, just to set out the events as known. The timeline does however makes some conspiracies less probably for example: popular conspiracy that the police set up Lucky Gordon on the night of April 18 1963 by telling him where Christine was, knowing that this would lead to his arrest. The timeline shows he already knew where Christine was having been arrested there the day before.
Its also a catalogue of the men became obsessed with Christine and how those obsessions cost the a career of The Secretary of State for War, It cost Christine a prison sentence and most tragically it cost a man his life.
A special thanks to Desmond Banks for his help in pulling this together.
There are lots of characters in the melting pot of 1960's London involved in her story. This timeline aims to be as comprehensive as possible without judgement or conspiracy, just to set out the events as known. The timeline does however makes some conspiracies less probably for example: popular conspiracy that the police set up Lucky Gordon on the night of April 18 1963 by telling him where Christine was, knowing that this would lead to his arrest. The timeline shows he already knew where Christine was having been arrested there the day before.
Its also a catalogue of the men became obsessed with Christine and how those obsessions cost the a career of The Secretary of State for War, It cost Christine a prison sentence and most tragically it cost a man his life.
A special thanks to Desmond Banks for his help in pulling this together.