Christine Keeler
(1942-2017), ModelSitter in 28 portraits
Keeler left her home in Wraysbury, Berkshire for London aged sixteen and in 1960 was employed at Murray's cabaret club in Soho. Here she met Stephen Ward and soon after went to live with him. He introduced Keeler to the Conservative Minister of War, John Profumo, and Yevgeny Ivanov, the Soviet naval attaché, at Cliveden. Affairs with both provoked a major political scandal in 1963 and helped to pave the way for Labour's success at the following election. Keeler gained substantial payments for her story from newspapers worldwide after the scandal broke and has since written autobiographies Nothing But... (1983), Scandal! (1989), The Truth At Last (2001) and Secrets and Lies (2012).
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by Edgar Brind
resin wire press photograph, 1960; printed 1963
NPG x201269
by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print, July 1961; printed June 1963
NPG x196121
by Lewis Morley
vintage gelatin silver print, June 1963
NPG x88354
by Lewis Morley
vintage gelatin silver print, June 1963
NPG x88355
by Tom Blau
modern bromide print from original negative, 1963
NPG x137309
by Tom Blau
modern bromide print from original negative, 1963
NPG x137310
by Tom Blau
modern bromide print from original negative, 1963
NPG x137311
by Tom Blau
modern bromide print from original negative, 1963
NPG x137312
by Tom Blau
modern bromide print from original negative, 1963
NPG x137313
by Tom Blau
modern bromide print from original negative, 1963
NPG x137314
by Tom Blau
modern bromide print from original negative, 1963
NPG x137315
by Tom Blau
modern bromide print from original negative, 1963
NPG x137316
by Tom Blau
modern bromide print from original negative, 1963
NPG x137317
Paula Hamilton-Marshall; Christine Keeler; Olive Nadia Brooker
by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print, 9 June 1963
NPG x196126
Mandy Rice-Davies; Christine Keeler
by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print, 22 July 1963
NPG x196127
Christine Keeler; Paula Hamilton-Marshall; Olive Nadia Brooker
by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print, 4 October 1963
NPG x196129
John Profumo; Christine Keeler
by Unknown photographers
gelatin silver print, printed 1963
NPG x196133
by Tom Blau
chromogenic print from original negative, 1963; printed 2007
NPG x137318
by Tom Blau
chromogenic print from original negative, 1963; printed 2007
NPG x137319
by Geoffrey Davien
sculptoon, ceramic, 1964
NPG D2726
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