An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (62 page)

8
. Lord Dilhorne to Macmillan, 18 September 1963, and Sir John Hobson, ‘Memo on Denning Report from the Attorney General’ [24 September 1963], NA PREM 11/4372; ‘Liberty Steadily Eroded’,
The Times
, 28 March 1968, p. 2e.

9
. Jeremy Hutchinson QC, quoted in ‘Keeler Gets Nine Months after Pleas of Guilty’,
The Times
, 7 December 1963, p. 6a; Dominic Sandbrook,
Never Had It So Good
(2005), pp. 634–35.

10
. Stephen Adams, ‘Christine Keeler Found Prison “Like School”’,
Daily Telegraph
, 22 July 2010; ‘Accidental Heroes of the 20
^th
Century’,
Independent
, 10 April 1999.

11
. Sir John Colville,
Those Lambtons
(1988), p. 155; R. A. Butler, aide-memoire of 18 November 1962, Butler papers G38; Boyd-Carpenter,
Way of Life
, p. 174; Howard and West,
Making of Prime Minister
, p. 74.

12
. Bevins,
Greasy Pole
, pp. 143, 147; Paul Channon to R. A. Butler, 18 October 1963, Butler papers G40.

13
. David Butler and Anthony King,
The British General Election of 1964
(1965), p. 151.

14
. Donald Zec, ‘Wilson – the Challenge of a Lifetime’,
Daily Mirror
, 24 September 1964, p. 17.

15
. Donald Zec, ‘The Britain I Want to See’,
Daily Mirror
, 25 September 1964, pp. 16–17.

16
. Marjorie Proops, ‘So Alec thinks I’m his SECRET WEAPON’,
Daily Mirror
, 7 October 1964, p. 17; ‘Top People, Too, Are Voting Labour’,
Daily Mirror
, 8 October 1964, p. 17.

17
. Sampson,
Anatomy of Britain
, p. 117; Cecil King to author, 23 November 1972, Davenport-Hines papers.

18
. Ken Gardner and Len Adams, ‘Christine Keeler: the Shameless Slut’,
The
People
, 4 August 1963, pp. 10–11;
Blom-Cooper, ‘Prostitution’, p. 66.

19
. ‘Witness Describes a Fight with Keeler’,
Glasgow Herald
, 3 October 1963; NA CRIM 1/4187.

20
. Keeler,
Scandal,
p. 76; Keeler,
Truth at Last
, p. xv; Keeler,
Secrets and Lies
, pp. xxv–xxvi.

21
. Freya Stark,
Letters
, 8 (1982), p. 80.

22
. Mark Girouard,
Big Jim: the Life and Work of James Stirling
(1998), pp. 217–23.

23
. ‘The Army rub Profumo’s name off a stone’,
Daily Mirror
, 1 August 1963, p. 4; Haslam,
Redeeming Features
, p. 272.

24
. Sir Oliver Wright to Timothy Bligh, 26 June 1963, NA PREM 11/4371.

Index

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abdication crisis (1936) 201

Abercrombie, Sir Patrick 151, 155

abortions 53, 54, 283

Abyssinia 7

‘Acid Bath Murders’ 190, 191

Adams, John Bodkin 108

Adler, Alfred 158

Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment 227

adultery 10–11, 37, 55, 59–60, 251, 252, 300, 332

Aeschylus 6

Aga Khan IV (
earlier
Prince Karim Aga Khan) 88

Ailwyn, Eric Fellowes, 3rd Baron 122

Air Ministry 54–5

Alexander, Harold, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis 51, 64–5, 83

Altrincham, John Grigg, 2nd Baron 22, 26–7

Aly Khan, Prince 87–8

Ambler, Eric 53

Amery, Julian (
later
Baron Amery of Lustleigh) 28, 255

Ancaster, Phyllis (‘Wissie’), Countess of 85

Andau, Austria 85–6, 105

Annan, Noël, Baron 252, 330–31

anti-Semitism 160, 162

appeasement 4, 8, 16, 58, 76

Argyll, Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of 310, 330

Argyll, Margaret, Duchess of 310

Army Game, The
(television programme) 63, 67

Ascot races 305–6

Ascroft, Eileen 207–8

Askey, Arthur 128, 131

Asquith, Henry, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith 6

Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen 21

Astor, William Waldorf, 1st Viscount 70–72, 73

Astor, Waldorf, 2nd Viscount 71, 72–3, 74, 75, 77

Astor, William Waldorf (‘Bill’), 3rd Viscount: family background 70–73, 189; birth 73; childhood and schooling 73–4; at Oxford 74–5; early career 75–6, 77; MP 76, 77, 79, 102; military service 77, 78, 79; takes Mayfair house 76, 150; in the Lords 77, 81–2, 86–7, 225; marriage to Sarah Norton 78–9; birth of son 78; buys Bletchingdon Park 78–9; returns to Cliveden 79–80, 82–3; marriage to Philippa Hunloke 80, 81, 101; refugee work 75–6, 85–7, 105; death of Prince Aly Khan 87–8; marriage to Bronwen Pugh 56, 89, 91–3, 104, 110, 326; Cliveden house party (July 1961) 246–8, 250; approaches to Foreign Office at Stephen Ward’s instigation 253, 256; reaction to threatened Christine Keeler Press stories 263; properties broken into by journalists 273; harassed by police investigations 283–4, 306; damage to reputation 272, 278, 305–6, 327, 333, 344; and Ward trial 135, 311, 314–15, 327; death 74, 343

Character & characteristics
: charitable works 75, 83–4, 85–7; hospitality 82–3, 88; international outlook 75–6, 81–2, 83, 84; political views 77, 81–2, 84, 89–90, 225; religious views 73, 84; sense of duty 75; sense of humour 92; social insecurity 79–80; sporting interests 74–5, 100; temperament 74, 75, 80–81; views on conduct of public figures 225

Relations with
: Lord Beaverbrook 89, 187, 212, 272; his father 77; Christine Keeler 135, 284; Harold Macmillan 12, 13; his mother 73–4, 80; Jack Profumo 102, 263; Mandy Rice-Davies 284; Stephen Ward 84, 94, 100–102, 104–5, 263, 284; women 77–8, 88, 91–2

Astor, William Waldorf, 4th Viscount 78

Astor, Bronwen, Viscountess (
née
Pugh): modelling career 55–6, 89–90; marriage 56, 89, 91–3, 104, 110, 326; appearance and character 89, 90, 91, 92, 343; spirituality 89, 91; life at Cliveden 92–4, 104; relations with Stephen Ward 104, 105; Cliveden house party (July 1961) 246–7

Astor, Caroline 71

Astor, David 74, 78, 81, 85, 101; editorship of
Observer
77, 82, 89, 294

Astor, John Jacob, 1st Baron Astor of Hever 189–90, 195

Astor, (Sir) John Jacob (‘Jakie’) 28, 81, 82

Astor, Nancy, Viscountess: intervenes in Macmillans’ marital crisis 12–14; marriages and children 72, 73–4, 80, 89; character 73, 74, 80; Christian Science 73; political career 73, 76, 80, 114; husband’s death 74; eightieth birthday interview 114

Astor, Philippa, Viscountess (
née
Hunloke) 80, 81, 101, 104

Astor, Sarah, Viscountess (
née
Norton) 78–9, 272

Athenæum (club) 19, 311

Atholl, Iain Murray, 10th Duke of 198, 290

atomic and nuclear weapons 67, 69, 213, 253, 262; nuclear disarmament 69, 215;
see also
Cuban missile crisis

Attlee, Clement, 1st Earl 64

Auchinleck, Sir Claude 170, 172

Austen, Jane 6

Austria 85–6, 105

Avon, Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of
see
Eden, Sir Anthony

Avon Carrow, Warwickshire 54, 62

Ayer, (Sir) A.J. 320–21, 338

Ayub Khan, Mohammad 246, 247, 249, 250

Background
(film) 118

Baldwin, Stanley, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley 7, 59

Balfour, Harold, 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye 60, 61, 250, 291

Balfour, Mary, Lady Balfour of Inchrye 250, 251, 291

Balfour, Honor 226–7

Balmacaan estate, Inverness-shire 161

Balmain, Pierre 90

Banbury 29, 62–3, 159

Banbury Guardian
297, 298–9

Banda, Hastings 302

Bandon, Percy Bernard, 5th Earl of 80

Bank Rate Leak (1957) 302

Barker, Sir Herbert 96–7

Baroda, Pratap Singh Gaekwad, Maharajah of 98

Barrett, Vickie 286–7, 313, 325, 331

Barskimming, Ayrshire 231, 232, 233

Bart, Lionel 321

Basildon 170–71

Bass, Alfie 63

Bay of Pigs invasion 104–5

BBC 44, 114, 213–15, 300;
Before Your Very Eyes
128;
In the News
213;
Listen with Mother
116, 123;
Panorama
255, 278;
That Was The Week That Was
214;
Woman’s Hour
123;
Z-Cars
214–15

Beaton, (Sir) Cecil 90, 167

Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, 1st Baron 164, 233, 238, 255; Press empire 4, 199–200; mistresses 12, 78, 272; animosity towards Astors 89, 187, 212, 272, 327; other personal vendettas 199–200

Bedford 33–6

Bedford, Sybille 145, 312

Bedfordshire Times
34–5

Beeching, Richard (
later
Baron Beeching) 21; Beeching Report 21–2

Beefsteak Club 8

Before Your Very Eyes
(television programme) 128

Beistegui, Don Carlos de 191

Belgium 143

Bell, Lawrence 260, 271, 279, 287

Benn, Anthony Wedgwood 32, 290, 308, 328

Bennett, Arnold,
The Card
53

Bentley, Derek 191

Berkeley, Humphry 33, 239, 304

Berlin 52; Berlin Wall 253

Berlin, (Sir) Isaiah 80–81, 83, 199

Berry, (Sir) Anthony 172

Berry, Michael (
later
Baron Hartwell) 79

Berry, Lady Pamela (
later
Lady Hartwell) 256, 279–80, 295

Betjeman, (Sir) John 103

Bevan, Aneurin 197

Bevin, Ernest 309

Bevins, Reginald 335

Birch, Nigel (
later
Baron Rhyl) 239, 255, 292, 303, 304, 335

Birmingham 146; parliamentary constituencies 28; property development 166, 168, 170

Bishop, (Sir) Frederick (‘Freddie’) 82

Blackpool 201; Conservative Party Conference (1963) 334, 335, 342

Blake, George 224, 322

Bletchingdon Park, Oxfordshire 78–9

Blickling Hall, Norfolk 77

Bligh, (Sir) Timothy 266–7, 287–8, 290–91

Blom-Cooper, (Sir) Louis 36, 295, 341

Bloom, John: memoirs 24; washing machine company 24, 113, 132–3, 263; sketched by Stephen Ward 103; attends sex parties 126–7; and Holford murder trial 132, 133–6

Blue Murder at St Trinian’s
(film) 128

BMA
see
British Medical Association