An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (60 page)

PART TWO: DRAMA

Nine: Acting Up

1
. Christopher Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm
(2009), pp. 495–96.

2
. Henry Vane, ‘From Evening Dress to Sloppy Joes’,
Twentieth Century
, 163 (May 1958), pp. 454–56; Frederic Raphael,
The Earlsdon Way
(1958), p. 78.

3
. Profumo,
House Down
, p. 157.

4
. Information from Dominic Harrod, 27 October 2011.

5
. Profumo,
House Down
, p. 157; Richard Lamb,
The Macmillan Years
(1995), pp. 455, 463.

6
. ‘More Confessions of Christine’,
News of the World
, 16 June 1963, p. 4.

7
. Stanford,
Bronwen Astor
, p. 222; Profumo,
House Down
, p. 159.

8
. Profumo,
House Down
, pp. 163, 167.

9
. Sir Richard Glyn, House of Commons debates, 17 June 1963, 679, col 119; Lord Annan,
Our Age
(1990), p. 137.

10
. ‘New Solutions Needed for Problems of 1960s’,
The Times
, 20 June 1962, p. 5a.

11
. ‘Mr Macmillan resignation possibilities’,
Time & Tide
, 5 July 1962, p. 5; R.F.V. Heuston,
Lives of the Lords Chancellors 1940–70
(1987), pp. 177–78.

12
. Lord Lambton, ‘Dear Prime Minister’,
Queen
, 31 July 1962, p. 18.

13
. Robin Douglas-Home, ‘Sentences I’d Like To Hear The End Of’,
Queen
, 31 July 1962, p. 18.

14
. Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries
,
II
, p. 507; Knightley and Kennedy,
Affair of State
, p. 109; Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 497; Lord Home, despatch 315 of 10 June 1963, NA PREM 11/4369.

15
. Irving,
Scandal 63
, p. 60. Italics added.

16
. Knightley and Kennedy,
Affair of State
, pp. 113–16.

17
. The official file of Edgecombe’s shooting trial is NA CRIM 1/4086.

18
. Stephen Ward to Sir Wavell Wakefield, 20 May 1963, NA PREM 11/4368; ‘Boy Driver of MP’s car is charged’,
Daily Express
, 5 March 1963, p. 5.

19
. Lord Wigg,
George Wigg
(1972), p. 67; Diary of Earl Winterton, 13 March 1951, Winterton 53; Harvey,
To Fall Like Lucifer
, p. 78.

20
. Carrington,
Reflect on Things Past
, p. 178.

21
. Denning report, paragraph 66. Keeler signed the proofs of this
Sunday Pictorial
story as true on 8 February 1963, but it was never published.

22
. Keeler,
Truth at Last
, p. 165; Knightley and Kennedy,
Affair of State
, p. 139.

23
. John Wyndham, ‘Top Secret’, 1 February 1963, NA PREM 11/4368.

24
. Egremont,
Wyndham and Children
, pp. 187–88, 190.

25
. Sampson,
Anatomy of Britain
, p. 134.

26
. Knightley and Kennedy,
Affair of State
, p. 197; private informant, 13 January 2012.

27
. ‘That Was The Government That Was!’,
Westminster Confidential,
8 March 1963, p. 1, NA PREM 11/4368.

28
. Ferdinand Mount,
Cold Cream
(2008), p. 258.

29
. Horne,
But What Do You Actually Do?
, p. 256.

30
. Patrick Hutber, ‘Obsessions on the Left’,
Twentieth Century
, 172 (Spring 1964), p. 57; Taper, ‘Punch-Drunk Parliament’,
National Review
, 149 (October 1957), pp. 164–65.

31
. Morgan,
Crossman Backbench Diaries
, p. 991.

32
. ‘Photonews Dossier in the Case of the Vital Witness Who Vanished’,
Daily Express
, 15 March 1963, p. 5.

33
. Stanford,
Bronwen Astor
, p. 238.

34
. ‘Vanishing Model Case Raised Before Judge’,
Daily Express
, 20 March 1963, p. 1; ‘MP Wants “Lost Witness” Count’,
Daily Express
, 21 March 1963, p. 1.

35
. John Owen, ‘Home of Model’s Friend Despoiled’,
Daily Telegraph
, 21 March 1963; ‘Call for Fine on Sensationalism’,
The Times
, 13 March 1963, p. 5a; M. E. C. Pumphrey, ‘In the Public Interest’,
The Times
, 11 March 1963, p. 11e; R. C. Carrington, ‘A Proper Defiance’,
The Times
, 12 March 1963, p. 11e.

36
. Hailsham,
Sparrow’s Flight
, p. 331; George Wigg, House of Commons debates, 21 March 1963, 674, col 725; Reginald Paget, col 727.

37
. Barbara Castle, House of Commons debates, 21 March 1963, 674, cols 740–41.

38
. Profumo,
House Down
, p. 180; Robinson,
Remarkable Lives of Bill Deedes
, p. 231.

39
. Rawlinson,
Price too High
, p. 95; Lord Dilhorne to Harold Macmillan, 12 June 1963, NA PREM 11/4370.

40
. John Profumo, House of Commons debates, 22 March 1963, 674, cols 809–10; George Wigg, House of Commons debates, 17 June 1963, 679, col 102.

41
. ‘Out Dancing Cheek to Cheek’, and ‘Mr Profumo Ends the Whispers’,
Daily Express
, 23 March 1963, pp. 1, 2.

42
. Statement of Julia Ellen Huish, Slough, 24 March 1963, NA PREM 11/4370; Macmillan, House of Commons debates, 17 June 1963, 679, cols 73–74; Evans,
Downing Street Diary
, p. 259.

43
. Rodney Hallworth and Frank Howitt, ‘After 17 days of silence’,
Daily Express
, 26 March 1963, p. 1; Roger Hall, ‘My friends – by Christine’,
News of the World
, 31 March 1963, NA PREM 11/4368.

44
. ‘Case of the Sensitive Osteopath’,
Time
, 29 March 1963, p. 25.

45
. George Wigg, memorandum [April 1963], NA PREM 11/4368; Irving,
Scandal 63
, p. 115.

46
. Morgan,
Crossman Backbench Diaries
, pp. 989, 995–96, 997.

47
. Andrew,
Defence of the Realm
, p. 498.

48
. Sir Alec Cairncross (ed.),
The Robert Hall Diaries 1954–61
,
II
(1991), p. 95; Bevins,
Greasy Pole
, p. 50; Timothy Raison, ‘Crime is the Priority’,
New Society,
4 October 1962, p. 20; Henry Brooke to Sir Alec Douglas-Home, 19 February 1964, NA PREM 11/4848; ‘Lady Brooke of Ystradfellte’,
The Times
, 5 September 2000, p. 23a;
Rawlinson,
Price Too High
, p. 96.

49
. Knightley and Kennedy,
Affair of State
, p. 167.

50
. Kennedy,
Trial of Stephen Ward
, pp. 86–7, 90–1.

51
. ‘Argument, then “I hit Miss Keeler”’,
Guardian
, 3 October 1963, p. 5; ‘Witness Describes a “Fight” with Keeler’,
Glasgow Herald
, 3 October 1963; ‘Charges Christine with Bribing Witnesses’,
Daily News
(St John’s, Newfoundland), 3 October 1963, p. 1f; ‘Offer of £1,000 by Christine Keeler Alleged’,
The Times
, 3 October 1963, p. 6d.

52
. Knightley and Kennedy,
Affair of State
, p. 171; NA CRIM 1/4130 contains the official dossier on Gordon’s trial for wounding Keeler.

53
. Mandy Rice-Davies,
Mandy
(1980), pp. 131–33.

54
. Kennedy,
Trial of Stephen Ward
, pp. 242–47; Tom Lambert, ‘Profumo Probe Turns to Dr Ward Inquiry’,
Montreal Gazette
, 20 June 1963, p. 1.

55
. Knightley and Kennedy,
Affair of State
, p. 175.

56
. Tim Bligh, Note for the Record, 7 May 1963, and [Malcolm Cumming eavesdrop] Record of a Conversation between Dr Stephen Ward and Mr Bligh at Admiralty House on Tuesday 7 May 1963, NA PREM 11/4368.

57
. Stephen Ward to Sir Wavell Wakefield and to Harold Wilson, both 20 May 1963, NA PREM 11/4369.

58
. Bligh, Top Secret Note for the Record [of 27 May meeting], NA PREM 11/4369.

59
. Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries
,
II
, p. 569.

60
. Knightley and Kennedy,
Affair of State
, p. 183; ‘A Private Letter from Dr Ward’,
Time & Tide
, 30 May 1963, p. 5.

61
. Lord Devlin,
Easing the Passing
(1985), p. 39; Tony Benn,
Years of Hope
(1994), p. 368.

62
. Gladwyn,
Cynthia Gladwyn
, p. 288.