The recent BBC drama about the events surrounding Christine Keeler has drawn new attention to the continuing official secrecy regarding the Profumo affair of the early 1960s, which gripped the ...

Sir Anthony Blunt, the surveyor of the Queen's pictures and distinguished art historian, finally confessed he had been a ...

Gisela Winegard and John Profumo met in Oxford in the 1930s, before she started working for German intelligence Tory minister John Profumo - who resigned over a notorious 1960s sex scandal - had a ...

Experts have expressed concerns that thousands of official documents about the late Queen and Prince Philip due to be made ...

Politicians seem to have been the worst culprits over the years. Probably the most famous political sex scandal was the Profumo affair. The Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigned from ...

We are talking, of course, about the Profumo Affair, the name given to the incident which kicked off with an affair between 19-year-old Christine Keeler and the then secretary of state for war ...

One story had parallels with the Profumo affair – a sex scandal within the Portuguese government. In the course of his investigations, O’Brien met the future president Mario Soares late ...