Profumo affair model Christine Keeler: a life in pictures

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Former model at centre of Profumo affair that shook politics in the 60s has died aged 75

• Full story: Christine Keeler dies aged 75
  

Main image: Christine Keeler, key figure in the 1963 Profumo Scandal which rocked the government, wearing a swimsuit as she walks along a beach, 1963 (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images) Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

Tue 5 Dec 2017 14.10 EST Last modified on Wed 6 Dec 2017 13.17 EST

• Keeler in a photograph by Lewis Morley, who recounted his taking of the picture to the Guardian in 2002. She became famous for her role in the 1963 Profumo scandal that rocked the British establishment

  Photograph: Lewis Morley/Sloane

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• July 22, 1963 Christine Keeler, a principal witnesses in the vice charges case against osteopath Dr. Stephen Ward.

  Photograph: stf/AP

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• The model, right, with Ward

  Photograph: Express/Getty Images

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• Then a teenage model, she had affairs with the Tory cabinet minister John Profumo and a Russian diplomat at the height of the cold war

  Photograph: Sharok Hatami/REX/Shutterstock

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• The East End gangster Ronnie Kray sits on Keeler’s righthand side at a nightclub

  Photograph: Express Newspapers/Getty Images

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• Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies leave the Old Bailey after the first day of Stephen Ward’s trial in 1963. It was through Ward, an osteopath, that Keeler was introduced to Profumo

  Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORB

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• Keeler arrives at court in October 1963. A BBC series revisiting the scandal is due to start filming next year

  Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images

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• Keeler leaves court with her solicitor. The Profumo scandal rocked the Harold Macmillan government

  Photograph: John Twine/Daily Mail / Rex

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• Christine Keeler in 1964

  Photograph: Sharokh Hatami/REX/Shutterstock

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• Keeler, left, with the photographer David Bailey, the model Penelope Tree and the singer Marianne Faithfull, right, in 1969

  Photograph: Express Newspapers/Getty Images

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• 21 Year Old Christine Keeler Pictured With Robin Drury On The Day Aloysius ‘lucky’ Gordon Was Sentenced To Three Years Imprisonment For Assaulting Her.

  Photograph: ANL/REX/Shutterstock

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• Keeler suffered from the lung disease COPD and had been ill for several months before her death

  Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

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