Valerie Hobson

Yeah.

So in 1954, he married the actress Valerie Hobson, who I have to say is an absolute smoke show.

Really? James, can we see a picture of Valerie Hobson? She sounds

like she would be with that name.

Yeah, absolutely.

He's married to her.

Yeah, so he's married to this actress lady.

He rose to several ministerial appointments and he gets appointed Minister for War in 1960.

Yeah.

And then he gets Valerie Hobson in Spy in Black.

Yeah.

Poor guy.

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in the ministry of foreign affairs and in 1960 he was appointed the new secretary of state for war under prime minister harold mcmillan his private life wasn't too shabby either as in 1954 profumo married valerie hobson a popular actress of her day best known for her roles in the movies kind hearts and coronets and brighter frankenstein Now let's move over to our tale's second protagonist, Christine Margaret Keeler.

She was born in Uxbridge, West London, on February 22, 1942, and her early life was markedly different from that of Profumo.

Her father left the family when Christine was a small girl, and she then had to relocate to the village of Raysbury with her mother and her new partner, who lived in a pair of converted railway carriages.

And the two were close enough that the Lord even allowed Ward and his entourage to vacation at his country estate called Cliveden.

And this is exactly what Ward and Keeler were doing over the weekend of July 8, 1961.

They were relaxing by the swimming pool when Lord Astor introduced them to two new guests, the actresses Valerie Hobson and her husband, War Secretary John Profumo.

Right off the bat, John Profumo was smitten with the young model, who was swimming naked when he first laid eyes on her.

And to this day, the Profumo affair is the one that people still talk about.

Profumo met Keeler at a party organized by the Society osteopath Stephen Ward and had a brief affair with her, despite being married to actress Valerie Hobson.

Keeler was at the time close friends with Mandy Rice Davis, whose vivacity and ready wit brought an even greater spotlight on the affair.

The scandal really developed when news of the affair spread, coupled with the revelation that Keeler was also seeing Yevgeny Ivanov, a naval attaché at the Soviet embassy.