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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, the deference to “the ruling class” was damaged, the printed press came out of the scandal with much more muscle, even 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.
The scandals cultural impact was profound as it kicked off the "Swinging Sixties". Politically it brought down a Government for an out of touch, Prime Minister.
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 just by showing the known events in order, such as a popular conspiracy that the police set up Lucky Gordon on the night of April 18 1963 by telling him where Christine was. The timeline shows he already knew where Christine was having been arrested there the day before, and in court Gordon said it was Ward that told him where she was.
Its also a catalogue of the men who became obsessed with Christine and how those obsessions cost the career of The Secretary of State for War, It cost Christine a prison sentence and tragically cost a man his life.
A special thanks to Desmond Banks for his help in pulling this together.
The scandals cultural impact was profound as it kicked off the "Swinging Sixties". Politically it brought down a Government for an out of touch, Prime Minister.
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 just by showing the known events in order, such as a popular conspiracy that the police set up Lucky Gordon on the night of April 18 1963 by telling him where Christine was. The timeline shows he already knew where Christine was having been arrested there the day before, and in court Gordon said it was Ward that told him where she was.
Its also a catalogue of the men who became obsessed with Christine and how those obsessions cost the career of The Secretary of State for War, It cost Christine a prison sentence and tragically cost a man his life.
A special thanks to Desmond Banks for his help in pulling this together.