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Christine Keeler

(1942-2017), Model

Sitter 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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Christine Keeler, by Tom Blau - NPG x137317

Christine Keeler

by Tom Blau
modern bromide print from original negative, 1963
NPG x137317

Paula Hamilton-Marshall; Christine Keeler; Olive Nadia Brooker, by Unknown photographer - NPG x196126

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 - NPG x196127

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 - NPG x196129

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 - NPG x196133

John Profumo; Christine Keeler

by Unknown photographers
gelatin silver print, printed 1963
NPG x196133

Christine Keeler, by Tom Blau - NPG x137318

Christine Keeler

by Tom Blau
chromogenic print from original negative, 1963; printed 2007
NPG x137318

Christine Keeler, by Tom Blau - NPG x137319

Christine Keeler

by Tom Blau
chromogenic print from original negative, 1963; printed 2007
NPG x137319

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