Christine Keeler – caught up in a typhoon

 
Christine Keeler, the good-time girl from an abusive childhood, whose teenage fling with John Profumo, the Defence Minister, brought down Harold MacMillan’s government in 1963, has had a sympathetic hearing from a new BBC drama. She was written off as a prostitute, having also had a liaison with a Soviet attache and intelligence officer, a smear from which she never recovered. Stephen Ward, the society osteopath who was the fixer for her entree into moneyed aristo circles committed