Michael Emrys Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Christine Keeler has died https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Keeler . For persons of a certain age—of which I am one—she represented a kind of watershed in how public figures are viewed with repercussions that are still being played out. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 Remember it well. I was a kid living in Middlesex at the time. (But in the slums.) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjkerner Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 I was 10 at the time and remember having the understanding that she was involved in some sort of scandal involving a perfume company. What a beauty, but boy did the press and people in general do a number on her. RIP, Ms. Keeler. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted December 7, 2017 Author Share Posted December 7, 2017 The whole affair inspired a new genre of bawdy jokes, the most memorable of which, for me, was: "Psst, Señor, how you like to buy some feelthy English postcards, eh?" Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Michael Emrys, You didn't intend to, but you briefly scred the daylights out of me with your post! Why? I have a niece named Christine Kettler, and that name, being familiar to it, is where my mind went instantly when seeing Christine Keeler's name. In such situations, it matters not that I spoke only a few hours ago with brother George who saw her just last night or that it makes no sense at all that any announcement of her death would show up here, particularly with regart to a Wiki entry. Here's the link to the CBS obit of her. The part about sleeping with "a Soviet naval attache with ties to intelligence" practically made me giggle, for anyone who knows anything about espionage at all knows full well any kind of military attache is a legal spy operating under diplomatic protection. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christine-keeler-profumo-affair-scandal-cold-war-britain-dead-at-75/ Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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