4. Denning, Lord Alfred, John Profumo and Christine Keeler 1963 (The Stationery Office, Norwich, 1999), p. 41

5. Ivanov, Captain Yevgeny with Sokolov, Gennady, The Naked Spy (Blake Hardbacks, London, 1992), p. 206

6. Robertson, Geoffrey, Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK: The Case for Overturning His Conviction (Biteback Publishing, London, 2013), p. 127

7. Robertson, Geoffrey, Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK: The Case for Overturning His Conviction (Biteback Publishing, London, 2013), p. 9

8. Robertson, Geoffrey, Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK: The Case for Overturning His Conviction (Biteback Publishing, London, 2013), p. 155

9. Davenport-Hines, Richard, An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (HarperCollins, London, 2013), p. 286

10. Ivanov, Captain Yevgeny with Sokolov, Gennady, The Naked Spy (Blake Hardbacks, London, 1992), p. 35

11. Robertson, Geoffrey, Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK: The Case for Overturning His Conviction (Biteback Publishing, London, 2013), p. 139

12. Davenport-Hines, Richard, An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (HarperCollins, London, 2013), p. 312

13. Robertson, Geoffrey, Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK: The Case for Overturning His Conviction (Biteback Publishing, London, 2013), p. 130

14. Robertson, Geoffrey, Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK: The Case for Overturning His Conviction (Biteback Publishing, London, 2013), p. 148

15. Robertson, Geoffrey, Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK: The Case for Overturning His Conviction (Biteback Publishing, London, 2013), pp. 7–8

16. Keeler, Christine with Thompson, Douglas, The Truth at Last: My Story (Pan Books, London, 2002), p. 217

17. Keeler, Christine with Thompson, Douglas, The Truth at Last: My Story (Pan Books, London, 2002), p. 217

18. Keeler, Christine with Thompson, Douglas, The Truth at Last: My Story (Pan Books, London, 2002), p. 218

19. Keeler, Christine with Thompson, Douglas, The Truth at Last: My Story (Pan Books, London, 2002), p. 219

20. Rice-Davies, Mandy with Flack, Shirley, Mandy (Michael Joseph, London, 1980), p. 143

21. Rice-Davies, Mandy with Flack, Shirley, Mandy (Michael Joseph, London, 1980), p. 137

22. Rice-Davies, Mandy with Flack, Shirley, Mandy (Michael Joseph, London, 1980), p. 138

23. The Guardian, January 2018, www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/01/bronwen-lady-astor-obituary

24. Rice-Davies, Mandy with Flack, Shirley, Mandy (Michael Joseph, London, 1980), p. 142

25. Rice-Davies, Mandy with Flack, Shirley, Mandy (Michael Joseph, London, 1980), p. 145

26. Rice-Davies, Mandy with Flack, Shirley, Mandy (Michael Joseph, London, 1980), p. 145

27. Profumo, David, Bringing the House Down: A Family Memoir (John Murray, London, 2006), p. 197

28. www.wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/articles/Commission+statement+on+its+review+of+the+1963+conviction+of+Dr+Stephen+Ward+deceased+11092017142000?open

29. The Guardian, September 2017, www.theguardian.com/law/2017/sep/09/case-of-profumo-affairs-pimp-will-not-go-to-court-of-appeal

Chapter 21

1. https://rapecrisis.org.uk/get-informed/statistics-sexual-violence

2. Knightley, Phillip & Kennedy, Caroline, An Affair of State: The Profumo Case and the Framing of Stephen Ward (Jonathan Cape, London, 1987), pp. 170–171

Chapter 22

1. Knightley, Phillip & Kennedy, Caroline, An Affair of State: The Profumo Case and the Framing of Stephen Ward (Jonathan Cape, London, 1987), p. 68

2. Knightley, Phillip & Kennedy, Caroline, An Affair of State: The Profumo Case and the Framing of Stephen Ward (Jonathan Cape, London, 1987), p. 73

3. Knightley, Phillip & Kennedy, Caroline, An Affair of State: The Profumo Case and the Framing of Stephen Ward (Jonathan Cape, London, 1987), p. 76

4. Knightley, Phillip & Kennedy, Caroline, An Affair of State: The Profumo Case and the Framing of Stephen Ward (Jonathan Cape, London, 1987), p. 77

5. Keeler, Christine with Thompson, Douglas, The Truth at Last: My Story (Pan Books, London, 2002), p. 156

6. Knightley, Phillip & Kennedy, Caroline, An Affair of State: The Profumo Case and the Framing of Stephen Ward (Jonathan Cape, London, 1987), p. 169

7. Rice-Davies, Mandy with Flack, Shirley, Mandy (Michael Joseph, London, 1980), p. 136

8. Andrew, Christopher, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 (Penguin, London, 2010), p. 494

9. Keeler, Christine with Thompson, Douglas, The Truth at Last: My Story (Pan Books, London, 2002), p. 156

10. Ivanov, Captain Yevgeny with Sokolov, Gennady, The Naked Spy (Blake Hardbacks, London, 1992), p. 115

11. BBC News, February 2002, www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51199469

A 1938 photo of John Profumo, who was later appointed Secretary of State for War. (Wikimedia Commons)

Profumo carries new wife Valerie Hobson over the threshold in London’s Regent’s Park, 31 December 1954. (Interphoto/Alamy Stock Photo)

Profumo returns home after admitting an affair with Christine Keeler, 18 June 1963. (Everett Collection Historical/Alamy Stock Photo)

Christine Keeler arriving at the Old Bailey, London, 1963. (All Star Picture Library Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)