KEELER, CHRISTINE AND JOHN PROFUMO
A COLLECTION, COMPRISING PHOTOGRAPH OF PROFUMO AND TYPED LETTER
£475
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
signed, War Office headed paper, 28 Feb. 1962, photograph of Christine Keeler by Lewis Morley with separate signed autograph dated Dec. 1991; signed photograph of Valerie Hobson, wife of John Profumo, signed photograph postcard of Mandy Rice Davies, Toynbee Hall Centenary Appeal signed by John Profumo, typed letter (not signed) to John Profumo as Chairman of Toynbee Hall from Elizabeth II, 28 Jan. 1984; Typed messages from Lambeth Palace and 10 Downing Street celebrating 100th birthday of Toynbee Hall; Reproduction portrait of Harold Macmillan signed by Macmillan, newspaper Headline clipping announcing Stephen Ward's death; Practising Certificate of the State Board of Osteopaths of Missouri, of Dr. Stephen Ward which hung in his Harley Street office
Footnote
Note: The affair of John Profumo, Secretary of State with War, with Christine Keeler who was also having an affair with Capt. Eugene Ivenov, a Soviet naval attaché, created a major political crisis which resulted in Profumo's resignation, Ward's conviction of living off the immoral earnings of Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies, and subsequent death, and Macmillan's resignation soon after.