Keeler and Rice-Davies move into Edgware Road flat together Ward moves into Bryanston Mews
8 March – Westminster Confidential publishes allegations against
Profumo
Keeler is worried about appearing at Edgecombe trial and plans to escape abroad
Gordon breaks into her flat when she is there with Kim Proctor, their friend Paul Mann arrives, and they escape and flee to France
9 March – Keeler arrives in Spain
10 March – Wigg attends party with Harold Wilson and Barbara Castle, they discuss potential political scandal
13 March – Denning Report shows Profumo now aware of Westminster Confidential article
14/15 March – Edgecombe trial continues without Keeler; Edgecombe is acquitted of Gordon assault but convicted of firearm charges and sentenced to seven years
15 March – Daily Express run story of Edgecombe trial’s missing witness, Keeler
Spring Cottage burgled
17 March – the Sunday Pictorial run Ward’s story instead of Keeler’s, the News of the World run a piece on Keeler written by Peter Earle
21 March – Wigg, Barbara Castle and Crossman raise rumours in House of Commons, Castle refers to Keeler as a ‘call girl’
22 March – Profumo makes a personal statement to the House
23 March – Rice-Davies, accompanied by reporters, visits Keeler’s mother, Julie Payne, looking for Keeler, Eddowes visits Payne
24 March – Keeler’s parents visit Colnbrook police station, and Keeler’s earning potential from her story is discussed
24 March – News of the World says Keeler has sent a postcard to Pauline
Hamilton-Marshall from Spain. It identifies Ivanov as a friend of Keeler’s
25 March – Wigg appears on Panorama and says Ward and Ivanov are security risks
26 March – Ward complains to Wigg about inaccuracies in his TV appearance, and that he has lost out on possible earnings by suppressing the story while others profit from it, Wigg reports to Harold Wilson, who in turn brings it to Harold Macmillan
27 March – Home Secretary Henry Brooke meets with Met Chief Sir Joseph Simpson and Roger Hollis, Head of MI5, to discuss Ward
28 March – Keeler and Proctor return from Spain and are interviewed by police
Keeler moves into Devonshire Street with Hamilton-Marshall and her brother John
29 March – Eddowes tells Special Branch Keeler told him Ivanov asked her to find out from Profumo when nuclear warheads would be delivered to West Germany
1 April – Keeler appears at Old Bailey for failure to attend Edgecombe trial, onlookers and press gather outside, Gordon is there and assaults her
1 April – Met police begin to investigate Ward
4/5 April – Police interview Keeler about Ward
7 April – News of the World publish story about Keeler
12 April – Gordon assaults John Hamilton-Marshall at Devonshire Street
17 April – Ward stands surety for Gordon
John Hamilton-Marshall and Keeler have a physical fight, Keeler suffers a cut above her eye.
John leaves, then Rudolph Truello Fenton and Clarence Camacchio arrive
18 April – in the early hours, Keeler, Fenton and Camacchio head out of flat to go dancing and are accosted by Gordon who attacks Keeler, Paula Hamilton-Marshall calls the police
As requested by the men, Keeler’s witness statement of the events excludes Fenton and Camacchio
18 April – Keeler moves to Notting Hill
19 April – Gordon arrested for assault on Keeler and interviewed by police about Ward
23 April – Rice-Davies arrested at Heathrow for driving licence fraud, spends nine days in Holloway
May – Rice-Davies appears in court, leaves for Majorca but is re-arrested when she returns for TV theft charge
26 April – Gordon committal
7 May – Ward complains to PM’s Private Secretary that police enquiries are damaging his reputation and that the Keeler/Profumo relationship amounts to more than has been admitted
