Christine Keeler (1942–2017)

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Keeler left her home in Wraysbury, Berkshire for London aged 16 and in 1960 was employed at Murray's cabaret club in Soho. Here she met Stephen Ward and soon after went to live with him. He introduced Keeler to the Conservative Minister of War, John Profumo, and Yevgeny Ivanov, the Soviet naval attaché, at Cliveden. Affairs with both provoked a major political scandal in 1963 and helped to pave the way for Labour's success at the following election. Keeler gained substantial payments for her story from newspapers worldwide after the scandal broke and wrote the autobiographies, 'Nothing But...' in 1983, 'Scandal!' in 1989, 'The Truth At Last' in 2001, and 'Secrets and Lies' in 2012.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Christine Keeler (1942–2017)

Date

1964

Medium

ceramic

Accession number

D2726

Acquisition method

donated by the widow of the artist, Shealagh J. Dickson, formerly Davien, 1977

Work type

Bust

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