Scandal
May, 1989
They were an oddly assorted lot: Her Majesty's secretary of state for war, John Profumo; Captain Eugene Ivanov, a Soviet naval attaché; a pair of tempting teenagers named Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies; a social-climbing osteopath, Stephen Ward, who often acted as procurer for his posh pals; and the gossip-hungry British tabloid press. But by the time the story had unraveled in the fall of 1963, their intertwined relationships had cost Ward his life and the Conservative government of Har...
