num_pages: 208
description: The Profumo Affair remains the biggest scandal ever to hit British politics. At the height of the Cold War, the Minister of War was having an affair with a call girl who had associations with a Russian Naval Officer. Harold Macmillan, the British Prime Minister, invited Lord Denning to examine the circumstances leading to the resignation of John Profumo and report on any danger to national security. There are questions of cover-up, lies told to Parliament, bribery, and stories sold to the newspapers. Lord Denning reports into the 1963 scandal and describes with astonishment and fascinated revulsion the extraordinary sexual behaviour of the ruling classes - orgies, naked bathing, sado-masochistic gatherings and addresses many of the startling rumours that were rife at the time.
language: English
title: The Scandal of Christine Keeler and John Profumo: Lord Denning's Report, 1963
titlecomplete: The Scandal of Christine Keeler and John Profumo: Lord Denning's Report, 1963
ratings_count: 18
publisher: Tim Coates