* 1963 – British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair.

* 1963 – Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo Affair.

Wilson's 1964 election campaign was aided by the Profumo Affair, a 1963 ministerial sex scandal that had mortally wounded the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan and was to taint his successor Sir Alec Douglas-Home, even though Home had not been involved in the scandal.

In 1963 on Macmillan's orders following the Profumo Affair, MI5 bugged the cabinet room, the waiting room, and the prime minister ’ s study until the bugs were removed in 1977 on Callaghan's orders.

* Christine Keeler, iconic 1960s model involved in the Profumo Affair, was born in Uxbridge.

The Profumo Affair was a 1963 British political scandal named after John Profumo, Secretary of State for War.

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The scandal, now known as the Profumo Affair, led to Profumo's resignation and withdrawal from politics, and it may have helped to topple the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan.

Since Keeler also had sexual relations with Yevgeni Ivanov, the senior naval attaché at the Soviet Embassy, the Profumo Affair took on a national security dimension.

The Conservative Party had, however, been suffering a decline in popularity for some time before the Profumo Affair, which could be traced back to the failed application to join the European common market and the Night of the Long Knives in July 1962, which had seen Macmillan dismiss seven members of his cabinet in an attempt to restore the government's popularity.

* The Guardian: The Profumo Affair

Her involvement with a British government minister discredited the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan in 1963, in what is known as the Profumo Affair.

At the height of the Profumo Affair in 1963, Keeler sat for a photographic portrait that became famous.

In the 1989 film about the Profumo Affair entitled Scandal, actress Joanne Whalley portrayed Keeler.

According to the writer Anthony Summers, two of his victims — Hannah Tailford and Frances Brown, the Stripper's third and seventh victims — were peripherally connected to the 1963 Profumo Affair.

Later, during the 1960s, it became the setting for key events of the notorious Profumo Affair.

The Astors ceased to live at Cliveden in 1968, shortly after the Profumo Affair and Bill Astor's death.

The hotel also lease Spring Cottage by the Thames, one of the key places in the Profumo Affair, and offer it as self-contained accommodation.

* Christine Keeler-A young girl who was involved with the Profumo Affair.

* John Profumo dedicated much of his time to the Hall from the 1960s onwards after the Profumo Affair forced him out of politics.

His first was in 1963, when he contested the by-election in Stratford-upon-Avon caused by the resignation of John Profumo.

Famous movies featuring Gassman include: Il sorpasso ( 1962 ), La Grande Guerra ( 1962 ), I mostri ( 1963 ), L ' Armata Brancaleone ( 1966 ), Profumo di donna ( 1974 ) and C ' eravamo tanto amati ( 1974 ).

In June 1963 when his fellow Minister John Profumo had to resign after admitting telling lies to Parliament about his private life, Lord Hailsham attacked him savagely on television.

The Profumo affair of 1963 permanently damaged the credibility of Macmillan's government.

Set in 1963 during the Profumo scandal, Hugh Whitemore's play A Letter of Resignation, first staged at the Comedy Theatre in October 1997, dramatises the occasion when Harold Macmillan, staying with friends in Scotland, received a political bombshell, a letter of resignation from Profumo, his war minister.

Although Profumo held an increasingly responsible series of political posts in the 1950s, he is best known today for his involvement in a 1963 scandal involving a prostitute.

But the British tradition of respecting the private lives of British politicians was maintained until March 1963, when the Labour MP George Wigg, claiming to be motivated by the national security aspects of the case, taking advantage of Parliamentary Privilege, referred in the House of Commons ( under immunity from any possible legal action ) to rumours that Profumo was having an affair with Keeler.

On 5 June 1963, Profumo was forced to admit that he had lied to the House, an unforgivable offence in British politics.

Mandy Rice-Davies ( born 21 October 1944 ), is a British former model and showgirl best known for her role in the Profumo affair and her association with Christine Keeler, which discredited the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963.

Stephen Thomas Ward ( 19 October 1912 – 3 August 1963 ) was an osteopath and artist who became notorious as one of the central figures in the 1963 Profumo affair, a British public scandal which profoundly affected the ruling Conservative Party government.

After an initial statement of denial to the House Commons, Profumo was forced to admit that he had lied, and had no alternative but to resign ( June 1963 ) from the government, the Privy Council, and his Parliamentary seat.

* Former Secretary of State for War John Profumo was the MP for Stratford-upon-Avon in the 1950s.

In the early 1960s, Profumo was the Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan's Conservative government and was married to actress Valerie Hobson.

In July 1960, Profumo was appointed a Secretary of State for War, ( outside of the cabinet ) and a member of the Privy Council.

In July 1961, Ward introduced Keeler to John Profumo, the British Secretary of State for War, at a pool party at Cliveden, the Buckinghamshire mansion owned by Lord Astor.

Keeler's affair with Profumo was terminated by the government's Cabinet Secretary, Sir Norman Brook, who spoke to him on the advice of Sir Roger Hollis, the head of MI5.

At the party Ward introduced Keeler to John Profumo, the British Secretary of State for War.

He was also criticised for not alerting John Profumo, the War Secretary in Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government, to the fact that he might have become entangled with a Soviet spy ring through his friendship with Stephen Ward, and his affair with Christine Keeler.

Near the end of his reign as prime minister, his government was rocked by the Vassall and Profumo scandals, which seemed to symbolise for the rebellious youth of the 1960s the moral decay of the British establishment.

Its broadcast coincided with coverage of the politically charged Profumo affair and John Profumo, the politician at the centre of the affair, became one of the targets for derision.

After his resignation, Profumo began to work as a volunteer cleaning toilets at Toynbee Hall, a charity based in the East End of London, and continued to work there for the rest of his life.

In 1940, while still serving in the army, Profumo was elected to the House of Commons as a Conservative Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Kettering constituency, Northamptonshire at a by-election on 3 March.

Profumo maintained complete public silence about the matter for the rest of his life, even when the 1989 film Scandal and the publication of Keeler's memoirs revived public interest in the affair.

Shortly after his resignation Profumo began to work as a volunteer cleaning toilets at Toynbee Hall, a charity based in the East End of London, and continued to work there for the rest of his life.

Peter Hitchens has written that Profumo " vanished into London's East End for 40 years, doing quiet good works ".

At the height of the Profumo scandal, the first prime minister of independent Malaya ( now Malaysia ) Tunku Abdul Rahman arrived in London for a visit.

For the British government the good news from Moscow was doubly welcome for drawing attention away from the Profumo affair, a sexual scandal involving a senior minister, which had left Macmillan's administration looking vulnerable.