An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (67 page)

Plaisirs de Paris
(revue) 128

Platnauer, Maurice 50

Playfair, Giles 47, 48

‘plot ratios’ 153, 155

Plumb, (Sir) John Harold (‘Jack’) 42–3

Poland 173

Poole, Oliver, 1st Baron 60, 296–7, 302

Porritt, Sir Arthur (
later
Baron Porritt) 106

Porter, Samuel, Baron, Committee on the Law of Defamation 198

Portland spy ring 227, 232

Portsmouth 68

positive vetting 224

Potts, Theodore x

Pound, Pelham 294

Powell, Anthony 7, 11, 142, 176

Powell, Enoch 32, 51, 255, 275

Powell, Michael 124

Pratt’s (club) 26

Press: coverage of sex 35, 111–12, 123, 126, 127, 138–9, 191–2, 194–7, 222, 223–4, 233, 234–7, 240, 249–50, 308, 344; coverage of crime 136, 188, 190, 191, 195, 196, 198; ethos and tactics of popular press 187–9, 190–92, 193–4, 195–9, 273, 365
n
14; role in Profumo Affair 187, 191–2, 193, 212, 247, 248–9, 262–3, 271–3, 277–8, 279–80, 292, 295, 296–7, 321, 344; circulation figures 189–90, 199; regulation 195, 197, 198; role in Vassall spy case 199, 232–7, 238–41, 275; post-Profumo attacks on ruling class 307–310, 336, 338;
see also
Daily Express
;
Daily Herald
;
Daily Mail
;
Daily Mirror
;
Daily Sketch
;
Daily Telegraph
;
Evening Standard
;
News of the World
;
Observer
;
People
;
Sunday Express
;
Sunday Mirror
;
Sunday Pictorial
;
Sunday Telegraph
;
Times

Press Association 288

Press Council 127, 195

Price, Dennis 53

Price, Sir Frank 170

Privacy Bill (1961) 197, 198, 302

Private Eye
(magazine) 339

procuration (criminal offence) 110

Profumo, David: on father’s character 50; childhood and upbringing 56–7, 65, 291; on father’s womanising 59; on father’s affair with Keeler 251, 252; and father’s resignation 291

Profumo, John (‘Jack’): family background 46; birth 46; schooling 46–50; at Oxford 50, 51; first elected to Parliament 50–51; inheritance 50–51; military service 51, 65, 67; relationship with Valerie Hobson 46, 51, 53, 54; returns to Parliament 54, 65; early government office 54–5; marriage to Hobson 45–6, 55–6, 110; leases house in Chester Terrace 56–7, 150; upbringing of children 56–7; 1959 general election 38–9, 61; ministerial career 58–9, 66, 255, 261; the Cliveden weekend (July 1961) 12, 246–50; subsequent assignations with Christine Keeler 250–52; notes and letters to Keeler 251, 252, 259–60, 262, 264, 266, 268; Keeler’s claims about their relationship 262, 264, 268, 304; asks MI5 to suppress newspaper serialisation of Keeler’s story 263; denies affair with Keeler to political colleagues 11, 50, 264–5, 267, 269, 275–6, 296; takes legal advice 265, 269; discusses possible resignation 267, 272; denies involvement in Keeler’s disappearance 271, 275; Parliamentary statement 275–6, 287, 288, 291, 297; resignation ix–x, 36, 290–91, 300; goes to ground in Warwickshire 297–8; Press reaction to resignation 292, 297, 344; politicians’ reaction to resignation 292, 294, 295, 296–7, 299–305; public reaction to resignation 62, 297–9, 301–2; later life 343–4

Character & characteristics
: appearance 59; barony 46, 50–51; dyslexia 50; pilot 50, 51; political astuteness 55; public speaking 61; sportsman 50; temperament 50, 54; vitality 54; womanising 59, 60–61, 344

Relations with
: Bill Astor 102, 263; Christine Keeler 65–6, 145, 250–52, 262; Harold Macmillan 11; Stephen Ward 102, 248, 252

Profumo, Valerie
see
Hobson, Valerie

Proops, Marjorie 123, 138–9, 186, 338

property development xii–xiv, 62, 149–59, 166–73, 176–8, 186

prostitution 35–6, 119, 144, 151, 175–6, 184, 306, 313, 324;
see also
procuration; Wolfenden Committee

Proust, Marcel 7, 265

Provident Life Association 46

Pugh, Bronwen
see
Astor, Bronwen, Viscountess

Punch
(magazine) 320

Queen
(magazine) 164, 255–6

Quigly, Isabel 124–5, 150

RAC (club) 26

race and racism 146–7, 180–81, 190–91

Race Relations Act (1965) 180

Rachman, Perec (‘Peter’): background and early life 173; appearance and character 173, 181–3, 185–6; wartime experiences 63, 173–4, 182; settles in Britain 174–5, 181; property business 148, 175–6, 178–81, 184, 185, 292; club management and theatre ownership 182, 185; Bryanston Mews West property xi, 126, 147, 148, 150, 183–4, 185, 264, 286; police investigations 184; application for British citizenship 184–5; relations with Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies 126, 147–8, 160, 184, 185–6, 258, 285, 319; death 186, 258, 317; posthumous Press stories 316–17, 336, 344; invoked during Ward trial 319, 324

‘Rachmanism’ 148, 173, 186, 336, 344

Radcliffe, Cyril, 1st Viscount: Blake spy case inquiry 224; Vassall spy case inquiry 232, 236, 238, 240, 241, 261, 264, 267, 329

Radway, Warwickshire 297–8

RAF (Royal Air Force) 50, 51, 298

Railton, (Dame) Ruth 205, 340

railways, botched attempt to modernise 21–2

Raison, (Sir) Timothy 86

Ramsbottom Rides Again
(film) 128

Raphael, Frederic 68–9, 158–9

Ratley, Warwickshire 298–9

Ravel, Maurice 52

Raven, Simon 43–4, 165

Rawlinson, Peter (
later
Baron Rawlinson of Ewell) 223, 227–8, 264–5, 274–5, 281, 332

Ray, Cyril 53

Raymond, Paul (Geoffrey Quinn) xi, 142–3; Raymond Revuebar 143, 338

Rayne, Max (
later
Baron Rayne) 153, 155

Rea, Philip, 2nd Baron 115

Redmayne, Martin (
later
Baron Redmayne) 255; and Vassall case 236, 237–8, 258; and Profumo Affair 267, 272, 274–5, 287, 288, 290–91, 295, 296–7, 304; and Denning inquiry 310, 332; and Party leadership contest 335

Rees-Davies, William (‘Billy’) 263, 264

Rees-Mogg, William (
later
Baron Rees-Mogg) 28

refugees 75, 84, 85–7, 105, 180–81

Regent’s Park 56–7, 100, 150

rent control and tenancy regulations 154, 177, 179–81, 184

Retail Price Maintenance 24, 133

retailing, transformation of 62, 159, 162–3

Revie, Alastair 321–2, 323

revues and striptease shows 123, 128, 142–4, 160–61, 338

Ricardo, Ronna 283, 286, 293, 313, 318

Rice-Davies, Marilyn (‘Mandy’): background and upbringing 145–6; appearance and character 109, 141, 146, 148; career 146, 150; moves into Peter Rachman’s Bryanston Mews flat 148, 286; witnesses Johnny Edgecombe’s attack 258–9; interviewed by police 263–4; accusations against Stephen Ward 264, 286; Press interviews 278; arrested by police 285–6; testifies at Ward’s hearing and trial 286, 319–20; interviewed at Denning inquiry 330; treatment in Press after Ward’s death 341; marriage and later life 147

Relations with
: Bill Astor 284; Walter Flack 147, 160, 172; Christine Keeler 146, 148, 262; men 139–40, 146–7; Peter Rachman 126, 147–8, 184, 186, 258, 285; Stephen Ward 257, 258, 264, 324

Richardson, Sir John (
later
Baron Richardson) 108

Richmond, Fiona xi

Rickard, Norman 235–6

Riddell, George, 1st Baron 188–9

Ritchie, Charles 167

Robinson, Joyce 120–21

Rochdale 142

Rolls Razor (washing machine company) 24, 113, 132–3, 263

Rondel, Norbert 348

Roosevelt, Franklin D. 225

Rose, Kenneth 25–6

Ross, Annie 338

Roth, Andrew 268–9, 299

Rothermere, Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount 193, 200, 201, 210, 339

Rothschild, Ferdinand de 71

Rowlatt, Charles 74

Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce 116–17, 188

Royal Opera House 151

Rubenstein, Michael 116

Russia
see
Soviet Union

Rutland, Charles Manners, 10th Duke of 90

Rutland, Anne, Duchess of 90

Rutland, Kathleen, Dowager Duchess of 80

Sabrina (Norma Sykes) 128–31, 139, 141, 142

Sacco and Vanzetti case 320–21

Sadler’s Wells Ballet School 84

St Moritz 89, 90–91

Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of 16, 24–5

Sampson, Anthony 305;
Anatomy of Britain
42, 43–4, 157, 159, 305, 340

San Remo 132

Sandown races 276

Sandringham 70

Sandys, Duncan (
later
Baron Duncan-Sandys) 98, 240

Sassoon, Sir Philip xiii

Satan in High Heels
(film) 131

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
(film) 39

Save the Children Fund 83–4

Savundra, Emil 135, 319–20, 325

Scott, Peter 121, 122

Scott, Terry 128

Scott, Sir Walter 5

Seafield, Nina, Dowager Countess of 161

Sears (retail conglomerate) 162–3

Second World War 8–9, 19, 23, 51, 57, 173–4; psychological effects of 63–6, 67–9

Seifert, Richard 154–5

Selkirk, George (‘Geordie’) Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of 19

Sendall, Wilfred 278

servicemen, as parliamentary candidates 66–7

Seventh Veil, The
(film) 150

Sewell, Brian 66

sex parties 126–7

sex symbols 125–31, 139–40, 142

Sexual Offences Act (1956) 109–110, 117, 313

Seymour, Leslie 28

Shaw, Robert (‘Bobbie’) 73, 74, 89, 101

Shell Oil Company 97, 163

Shepherd, William 100, 236, 256–8

Shepherds Bush 179; Charecroft Estate 176

Shipman, Harold (‘Fred’) 108

shoe retailing 62, 162–3, 164

Shropshire Territorial Army headquarters 343

Shufflebottom, Margaret 143

Shute, Nevil 6

Sierra Leone 203

Silkin, Lewis, 1st Baron 151–2, 153, 154, 155, 158

Sillitoe, Alan 338;
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
39

Sim, Alastair 128

Simpson, Alan 215

Simpson, Sir Joseph 280, 281, 287, 317

Sinatra, Frank 98

Sinclair, George 176, 178–9, 317

Skardon, Jim 221

Skinner, Quentin 35

Slade School of Art 102

Smithers, Sir Peter 305

snobbery viii, 105, 188, 228, 345; inverted 188, 193, 234, 237

Snow, C.P. (
later
Baron Snow) 42, 83

Soames, Christopher (
later
Baron Soames) 255

Soho 139, 142, 143, 150, 151, 175, 182

Solihull 145

Somerfield, Stafford 127

Soskice, Sir Frank (
later
Baron Stow Hill) 279, 281

Soskin, Renée x, xii, xiv

Sourire de Paris
(revue) 160–61

Southwood, Julius Elias, 1st Viscount 339

Soviet Union 84, 174, 253; Macmillan visits 225–6; Wilson visits 269–70, 303;
see also
Moscow

Spain 271, 277, 286

Spain, Nancy 191