English model and showgirl Christine Keeler travelled to Spain and France briefly before her controversial involvement with war minister John Profumo led to his resignation. She was a 19-year-old model and dancer. She had brief sexual relationships with John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War, and Captain Yevgeny ‘Eugene’ Ivanov, a Soviet naval attaché, during a similar period.
During the Cold War, the Profumo Affair of 1963 rocked the nation and the Conservative government. Whether Keeler could have passed sensitive information between her lovers, resulting in a security breach. She was branded a “tart” by Harold Macmillan, the prime minister whose government collapsed due to the scandal.
