Profumo, John Dennis

Profumo, John Dennis
▪ 2007
 British soldier, politician, and charity worker (b. Jan. 30, 1915—d. March 9, 2006, London, Eng.), was the central character in one of the U.K.'s most spectacular sex scandals of the 20th century. Profumo was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and in 1940 succeeded his father as fifth Baron Profumo of Italy. He served both as an army officer in World War II and as an MP (1940–63). He held several parliamentary posts and in 1960 entered Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Conservative cabinet as secretary of state for war. Profumo was one of Britain's most glamorous politicians—handsome, wealthy, a personal friend of Queen Elizabeth II, and married to the popular actress Valerie Hobson. In early 1963, however, stories circulated that he had had an affair with a prostitute, Christine Keeler, who had also shared her favours with Yevgeny Ivanov, the Soviet military attaché in London. Profumo initially denied the stories but then admitted that they were true. His lie to Parliament, together with the obvious security dangers of the Ivanov association, forced his resignation in June from both the cabinet and Parliament and contributed to the fall of Macmillan's government in October. Profumo's wife stood by him, and he rebuilt his life by working for the next four decades, initially washing dishes, at Toynbee Hall (in London's East End), which offered help and comfort for the city's poor. He never spoke publicly about the “Profumo affair,” and in later life he was widely praised for having risen from disgrace to redemption. Because of his charity work, Profumo was appointed CBE in 1975.

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