Christine Keeler

Pictured at the Notting Hill Diner just off Portobello Road, a favourite haunt in the nineties. Keeler became notorious in the 1960’s when she brought down the Conservative Government led by Sir Alec Douglas- Home. A London call girl Keeler had an affair with John Profumo, Secretary of State for War whilst also having an alleged affair with Yevgeny "Eugene" Ivanov, a senior naval attaché at the Soviet embassy in London. Given Profumo's position in the government and with the Cold War at its height, the potential ramifications in terms of national security were grave, and this, along with the adulterous nature of Profumo's relationship with Keeler, quickly elevated the affair into a public scandal.