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The Profumo Affair was a political scandal of 1963 in the United Kingdom. It is named after the then-Secretary of State for War (now an obsolete position), John Profumo. Profumo was a well-educated and respected high-ranking Conservative cabinet minister. He was married to the actress Valerie Hobson. The scandal stemmed from his brief relationship with a showgirl named Christine Keeler. Profumo met her at a party at Cliveden in 1961 organised by the fashionable London osteopath Dr Stephen Ward. Their relationship lasted only a few weeks before Profumo ended it. Rumours about the affair became public in 1962, as did the apparently serious fact that Keeler had also had a relationship with Yevgeny "Eugene" Ivanov, the senior naval attaché at the Soviet Embassy. Profumo's main mistake was to lie in the House of Commons. In March 1963, he claimed that there was "no impropriety whatever" in his relationship with Keeler. Profumo confessed...

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