Todays guest speaker was Stephen Dorril who is a British academic, author and journalist who gave us a talk about the Profumo Affair which rocked the Conservative government in 1963.
John Perfumo was Secretary of state for War in Harold Macmillans government who started an affair with 19 year old model Christine Keeler beginning in 1961, Profumo denied the affair in a statement in the House of Commons in 1963 but was later proved he had lied. Christine Keeler was also having an affair with Captain Yevgeny Ivanov a Soviet naval attache which when this became public forced Profumo to resign.
A major player in all this was well known Osteopath and socialite Stephen Ward who during Keelers trial killed himself after he was found guilty of living off immoral earnings of Keeler and Mandy Rice -Davis.
Our speaker spoke about the many people involved in the murky world of MI6, sex parties and drugs which led up to this scandal. He has also interviewed and written about a lot of the people he talked about.