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Hace 4 días · It was there in July that John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan‘s Conservative government, first met Christine Keeler, a striking 19-year-old model and topless dancer. Profumo was 46, married, and a rising star in the Tory party, a veteran MP who had previously served as a junior minister at the Foreign Office.
Hace 1 día · Scandal provides a sensationalist and seductive account of the high-society parties and meetings that led to the widely-publicised and controversial affair and its subsequent political fallout, showcasing the hedonism of British politics in the mid-20th century and the immoralism that dominated the early 1960s.At the centre is Ward, who largely became the scapegoat for Profumo’s actions, and ...
Hace 2 días · Lesson one, which is rather obvious, is don’t count chickens. Everything pointed to Labour winning in 1992, but John Major managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Labour is desperately trying not to have a chicken count now and treading very carefully to avoid any triumphalism. The second is that governments which have been ...
Hace 2 días · Most famously, or notoriously, it was at a Cliveden party in 1961 that Conservative minister John Profumo met a 19-year-old dancer Christine Keeler. They began an affair, ...
Hace 2 días · The Elections. The general election of 1964 was held on October 15, some five years and six days since the previous election. The Conservatives, having been in power for 13 years and seeking a fourth term, once again entered the election with a new leader. Sir Alec Douglas-Home had succeeded Harold Macmillan as prime minister and leader of the ...
Hace 3 días · Ian Handford. Email: torbayweekly@clearskypublishing.co.uk. Stephen Thomas Ward, born at Lemsford Hertfordshire on 19 October 1912, was the second son of Rev A E Ward - Vicar of Lemsford. His mother Eileen Esmee a daughter of Thomas Vigors of Anglo-Irish stock. It was in 1920 that the whole family moved when his Reverence was appointed Vicar of ...
Hace 1 día · Booking details for Cliveden House & Spa. Address: Cliveden House & Spa, Bourne End Rd, Taplow, Maidenhead SL6 0JF, United Kingdom. Book at Booking.com Book at Expedia. Read more from Vogue’s ...
