RIP Mandy Rice-Davies

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Rice-Davies. . .was responsible for one of the best-known quotations of modern time: “He would, wouldn’t he?”, made during the Old Bailey trial of Stephen Ward, an osteopath charged with living off the immoral earnings of Christine Keeler and her friend Rice-Davies. Keeler had had an affair with the then war secretary John Profumo and had also had sex with the Soviet naval attache in London who was a spy. Profumo’s disgrace followed a false denial that he had slept with Keeler, and the resulting furore probably played a part in the Conservatives’ defeat at the general election the following year.

I wasn't born at the time of The Profumo Affair but for a long time it seemed to be the scandal of the late-20th century UK politics.



Take the Cold War out of the equation - if it happened now I couldn't see this being more than a footnote in today's news.