28 February – Nicholson sends Ivanov a letter outlining government’s views on disarmament

6 March – Nicholson tells Foreign Secretary Ivanov is asking for British position on Berlin

8 March – Nicholson sets out British position on Berlin in a letter to Ivanov

13 March – Ivanov asks Nicholson about British position on Oder-Neisse line

14 March – Nicholson replies with a letter outlining government’s view on Oder-Neisse line

Ivanov takes leave and returns to Russia

March/April – Gordon attacks Keeler at Dolphin Square, and then rapes and holds her hostage with another girl for two days until Keeler escapes and the police are called

Gordon’s family convince Keeler to drop charges against Gordon, but Gordon continues to stalk Keeler, with Keeler eventually leaving Dolphin Square to return to Wimpole Mews. Gordon continues to harass Keeler at her new home

28 May – Ward reports a letter from Ivanov sending his regards to Nicholson and telling Ward he will see him in June

May – Keeler meets Michael Lambton, she moves into Kinnerton Street with him, and they get engaged

2 June – Ivanov returns to UK

5 July – Rice-Davies and Keeler head to the US via liner, Lambton pays for their passage

18 July – Rice-Davies and Keeler return to UK by plane, Keeler returns to Wimpole Mews

September – Keeler meets Paula Hamilton-Marshall and Johnny Edgecombe

Keeler moves to Sheffield Terrace with a friend and Edgecombe moves in

Keeler buys a gun to protect herself from Gordon, begins relationship with Edgecombe

September/October – Rice-Davies moves into Wimpole Mews with Ward

Early October – Gordon punches Keeler to the ground near Comeragh Road

20 October – Keeler and Edgecombe move to Bayswater Hotel

24 October – Ward tells FO that Ivanov believes the UK is the only hope for conciliation between Soviets and USA during Cuban Missile Crisis

25 October – Keeler asks Ward for her old room back

25 October – Nicholson tells FO Ivanov has visited hoping to hear Britain wants negotiations to proceed at summit

Ward gives FO same account

Lord Astor tells Lord Arran a Russian official wants to pass information to the British government

26 October – Ward telephones Lord Arran to ask if he and Ivanov can visit

27 October – Ward and Ivanov visit Lord Arran to pass on a message to the British government that Khruschev would accept a summit if Britain called one to break Cuba deadlock. Arran reported to FO and Admiralty House

27/28 October – Gordon chases Keeler, Edgecombe slashes Gordon’s face, Ward collects Keeler’s things from hotel, but Keeler decides to go to Brentford for four days with Edgecombe

28 October –Arran dines with Astor at Cliveden to find Ward and Ivanov there, Khruschev’s decision to removed Cuban missiles had become known

31 October – Keeler finishes relationship with Edgecombe and stays at Wimpole Mews for a few days

Ward introduces Keeler to Michael Eddowes, but Keeler is not attracted to him, so she declines any further dates

Dr Savundra rents the Wimpole Mews room for the purpose of taking girls there, Rice-Davies sleeps with him and he gives her £20

1 November – Keeler rents flat in Great Cumberland Place with Rosemary Wells

Rice-Davies moves into Wimpole Mews

7 November – Ward writes to Harold Wilson telling him that he had been the intermediary sending the message about the proposed summit with Khruschev

8 November – Gordon pleads guilty to insulting words and behaviour against police and is fined

29 November – Rachman dies, Rice-Davies is devastated and attempts suicide

14 December – Edgecombe shooting incident takes place

15 December – Edgecombe arrested, and newspapers show an interest in Keeler and Profumo

Keeler and Rice-Davies move to Great Cumberland Place, Lord Astor visits and Rice-Davies says they have sex

Keeler tells Eddowes about Profumo, Ivanov and the bomb

Police interview Keeler several times asking about Edgecombe and then Ward

Gordon turns up at Keeler’s mother’s home

23 December – Keeler and Paul Mann attend a party; there they meet John Lewis. Keeler tells Lewis about Profumo and Ward asking her about the bomb

1963

January – to put an end to harassment, Keeler agrees to meet Gordon at the Flamingo Club then again at the end of the month at his brother’s flat, hoping this will be the last time

16/17 January – Edgecombe’s committal proceedings, Keeler gives evidence

19 January – Gordon fined £5 for possessing an offensive weapon, Keeler pays the fine

22 January – Keeler meets Mandy, Nina Gadd and her fiancée, who is a

Sunday Pictorial journalist

23 January – Keeler agrees to sell the Pictorial her story, and hands over the ‘Darling’ letter