Profumo affair
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title:
Profumo affair
text:
The Profumo affair was a major scandal in British politics during the early 1960s. John Profumo, the 46-year-old Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, had an extramarital affair with the 19-year-old model Christine Keeler beginning in 1961. Profumo denied the affair in a statement to the House of Commons in 1963; weeks later, a police investigation proved that he had lied. The scandal severely damaged the credibility of Macmillan's government, and Macmillan re
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1960s British political scandal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profumo_affair
date created:
2002-10-07T10:50:37Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T22:58:53Z
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