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Mandy Rice-Davies, who together with Christine Keeler was at the heart of the Profumo affair which rocked Harold Macmillan’s Tory government in the early 1960s, has died aged 70 after a short illness.
Amazingly, despite her major role in the scandal, Rice-Davies never actually met Secretary of State for War John Profumo who had a brief affair with Christine Keeler — Rice-Davies’s flatmate and friend who at the same time Keeler was sleeping with a Russian diplomat.
Profumo famously lied to a packed House of Commons, stating “there was no impropriety whatever in my acquaintance with Miss Keeler.” That lie sealed his fate and helped bring down Macmillan’s government.
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