An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (53 page)

Eugene Ivanov, the Russian naval attaché. Journalists and Labour Party leaders pretended to believe the dubious tale that he had an affair with Christine Keeler. (Popperfoto/Getty Images)

The Minister of War, Jack Profumo, with the boys and a new Saladin tank in 1960. (Mary Evans/Interfoto Agentur)

The swimming pool at Cliveden where Jack met Christine and Eugene in July 1961. (Getty Images)

The Flamingo club in Wardour Street, Soho where black jazz lovers and hip white Mods congregated. It was outside the Flamingo that Johnny Edgecombe knifed ‘Lucky’ Gordon during a row over Christine Keeler. (Getty Images)

Christine Keeler dressed for work at Murray’s Club in Beak Street, Soho in 1960. (AGIP/Epic/Mary Evans)

Detectives scrutinising the bullet holes after Johnny Edgecombe had shot at Christine Keeler at 17 Wimpole Mews in December 1962. (Rex Features)

The police coerced Christine Keeler into giving perjured evidence against ‘Lucky’ Gordon. He looked spruce when months later she was tried for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice during his trial. (Getty Images)

A gaunt but plucky Stephen Ward in his Bryanston Mews West home in June 1963 after his release from remand in prison. Mandy Rice-Davies had been detained on a trumped-up charge of stealing a similar television from the flat. (Mirrorpix)

Christine Keeler returning to Paula Hamilton-Marshall’s flat in Devonshire Street after a police interview in June 1963. The flat was above the premises of the Genito-Urinary Manufacturing Company. (Mirrorpix)

Stephen Ward in a Bryanston Square flat preparing for the first day of his trial in July 1963. (Mirrorpix)

Mandy Rice-Davies leaving the Old Bailey in July 1963, after testifying at Ward’s trial, seems serene amid the jostling, leering, taunting mob. (Getty Images)

Stephen Ward is carried from Noel Howard-Jones’s flat in Chelsea after taking an overdose. Callous press photographers tried to force their way into the flat. (Getty Images)

Photographers harried Jack Profumo when two months after his resignation he flew to Scotland with his son David for a holiday in August 1963 – between Ward’s suicide and publication of the Denning Report. (Mirrorpix)