[…] initial contact with him via Fred, was doing the corresponding (which in those days meant letters). Then Anthony Summers invited Steve to co-author a book on the Profumo Affair – this meant serious money, and Steve and I were both poor – and Steve began working with Summers and I took over the correspondence […]
[…] Margaret George, The Hollow Men, (London: Leslie Frewin, 1965) Was a more detached but damning indictment, and she names the guilty names. But by this time, the Profumo scandal (not coincidentally at Cliveden) and Wilsons Labour election victory in 1963 had displaced concern with raking over the past. Appeasement became just another topic of […]
[…] He had a lengthy record of interventions on matters concerning sexuality, voted against homosexual decriminalisation in the House of Lords and conducted the cover-up inquiry in the Profumo case. In Thatcher & Sons: A Revolution in Three Acts (2006) Simon Jenkins comments that one effect of the Thatcher, Major and Blair years has been […]
[…] of the few where the author eschews the studied objectivity of the majority of the work, his final paragraph reading: ‘Ward was in fact incidental to the Profumo episode: he was a sacrificial offering. The exorcism of scandal in high places required the façade of his conviction on vice charges.’ The entries are scrupulously […]
[…] to make way for Wilson. This notion wasn’t entertained in NW1 but there was a feeling that Wilson had been suspiciously quick to take advantage of the Profumo affair. Cui bono notions were in the air. Perhaps the Soviets had arranged it for Wilson’s political benefit? If so, what did that say about Wilson? […]
[…] the other hand, the Tory MP – public schoolboy – sexual deviant/fetishist figure is scarcely fresh news. Didn’t we hear all about this around the time of Profumo? The authors make a big noise about the general immorality of the arms trade and arms manufacturers. What they don’t probe, in any great depth, are […]
[…] story. But in the midst of this research, Dorril was contacted by Anthony Summers who offered him the chance to be co-author of a book on the Profumo Affair, which became Honeytrap. Dorril abandoned Wallace and Holroyd and I wrote Lobster 11, an attempt to make sense of some of Wallace’s allegations. We had […]
[PDF file]: […] German call girl’. 48 Seymour Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (Boston: Little Brown, 1997), pp. 387-390. the Soviet embassy.49 To Hoover, this intelligence recalled the sensational Profumo affair then grabbing headlines in Great Britain. The British scandal eventually prompted the resignation of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan after public revelations that his War Minister, […]
[PDF file]: […] Kennedy, appears to have had access to quite a considerable variety of interesting information. On 31 July 1962 Queen published the first piece of gossip linking John Profumo to Christine Keeler and Eugene Ivanov. It is not known who supplied Queen and/or Robin Douglas-Home with this information, but its appearance was a significant part […]
[PDF file]: […] F Kennedy. She was also hosting sadomasochistic sex orgies with Dibben, including the ‘Man in the Mask’ party, and became a figure on the periphery of the Profumo Affair. That in a nutshell is the Mariella story. So, the biographer has some heavy lifting to do sorting out fact from fiction. Right? Wrong in […]
