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    Secrets and Lies

    By Christine Keeler

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    Christine Keeler’s name is as synonymous with the sexual revolution as the Pill. Her short affair with the Minister for War, John Profumo, led to the downfall of Harold Macmillan's government and was at the epicenter of the social and political earthquake that followed. What she can now tell with mature insight will shatter all preconceptions. This is the life’s journey of a woman whom history had refused to let go, who can never escape being Christine Keeler. She is a headline forever. This is a compulsive account of her enormous personal sacrifice, her unstinting resolve, and her triumphant survival. What Christine Keeler has finally found herself brave enough to tell, rewrites history.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Blake
    Release dateMay 1, 2012
    ISBN9781857827194
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    • 3/5
      Like most people, I suspect, my awareness of Christine Keeler and the Profumo Affair of the 1960s comes from the film Scandal, with Joanne Whalley playing Christine. Also, the soundbite, 'He would, wouldn't he?', from fellow good time girl Mandy Rice-Davies is always quotable. This autobiography, however, is Christine's story, in (more or less) her own words. A 'mixed-up, lovesick young girl' who 'slept with the Secretary of State for War. And a Soviet Spy' while having 'lived with and worked for Stephen Ward, another Russian agent'. Or, to put a different slant on the matter, 'my life has been cursed by sex I didn't particularly want', and 'it is staggering when I contemplate what role I played'. Christine is very believable when admitting to how young - she was only seventeen when she first met Ward - and naive she was, hopping from bed to bed and making a life out of stupid decisions. The name dropping (and further bed-hopping) gets a bit tiresome post-Profumo - George Peppard, Warren Beatty - and her protestations of being fitted up, guv, are a slightly overwrought, but her frustration is probably understandable. (She claims that Ward used her as an alibi and scapegoat for his own treasonous double-dealings during the Cold War, and the Denning Report covered up for him and the establishment by trashing Christine's reputation.) I struggled more with Christine's creative spin on her youthful stupidity - all the men she slept with really feared her powers of perception and so had to 'keep her quiet', whether through court cases or death threats - and her claim that she always put her sons first. Hm.Pinch of salt at the ready, Christine tells a cracking story, and really transports the reader back to 1960s London, with her descriptions of 'swinging' parties and sordid revelations of the upper classes. And for good or ill, she has become a British icon, posing on a chair for the camera.