Scandal

ScandalThey 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...