News about Valerie Hobson

June 1963 and 18-year-old model Mandy Rice-Davies is being interrogated in court about her sex life by a prosecution intent on proving she is implicated in improper behaviour. Lawyers put it to the nervous teenager that one of the men she claimed to have slept with, former MP Lord William Astor, 55, has denied any such liaison. Mandy's reply is defiant, cutting through class barriers and capturing the lies and hypocrisy of the biggest political sex scandal of the last century in five short words: 'Well, he would, wouldn't he?'

Even now, after more than 60 years and when it seemed every secret had been unearthed and every sordid detail pored over, the Profumo affair remains as murky and intriguing as ever. The Mail on Sunday last weekend revealed that Prince Philip was named in FBI documents about this most enduring of British political sex scandals.

Ms Keeler, who passed away in 2017 at the age of 75, was at the heart of Britain's most infamous sex scandal after she and war minister John Profumo had an extra-marital affair when she was 19 years old. Her family has maintained that unrelated charges brought against her were trumped up to discredit her amid the sex scandal which ultimately contributed to the downfall of Harold Macmillan's Tory Government. They could now finally receive justice after investigators from the Criminal Case Review Commission passed on more than 200 pages that could prove her innocence.

Was art expert Blunt on a mission to protect senior members of the Royal Family from association with the immoral earnings of goodtime girls Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies was gripping the post-war public?Was he attempting to save the reputation of Prince Philip and erase any public sign of a louche, party-going lifestyle more suited to a dissolute bachelor than the prince consort of a Queen? The Palace has long denied any involvement in the events of the weekend, but rumors and mystery persist. Philip had been in touch with Ward on several occasions, and he had even been sketched by the artist at Buckingham Palace. Now, this and other drawings had quickly disappeared due to the mystery purchaser.

Keeler became an outcast after her relations with both then War Minister John Profumo (inset) and a Russian spy first emerged in 1963. She was then sentenced to perpetency in December 1963, several months after Profumo resigned due to the scandal. During the criminal trial of her ex partner Lucky Gordon, who she said had assaulted her, Keeler testified. He was found guilty and sentenced to three years in prison for three years. However, it later emerged she had lied to the court and was sentenced to nine months in prison. Dr. Felicity Gerry (inset top) said last night that Keeler's conviction was 'dreadful' and should be dismissed, according to human rights KC. She has joined forces with Keeler's son to submit an appeal to the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

Profumo (inset bottom) affair icon Christine Keeler (right and inset top in 1964)'s son has announced that his late mother will finally receive compensation 60 years after she was barred from prison for lying in court. Seymour Platt (left), 51, is hoping that his mother's appeal to the Criminal Case Review Commission within a few weeks. Ms Keeler died in 2017 at the age of 75. Since she and war minister John Profumo had an extramarital affair when she was 19 years old, she was at the center of Britain's most notorious sex scandal. Her family has maintained that unrelated charges brought against her were deliberated up to discredit her in the aftermath of Harold Macmillan's Tory Government's demise.

Yevgeny Ivanov (left), the Russian naval attache, had an affair with Christine Keeler (right) while sleeping with then war minister John Profumo (inset), sparking a controversy that rocked British politics in the early 1960s. However, newly revealed MI5 files (inset bottom) show how Britain's domestic intelligence service recruited Ivanov before the Profumo affair after learning how he was inebriated at parties and enjoyed "prosecuing, pinching, and dancing with women." Cat Burglar, an MI5 agent codenamed Cat Burglar, sent an agent coded "Never" to try to bring Ivanov on board. According to the files, Ivanov was described as "aggressively hearty and arguing" at a Christmas cocktail party hosted by a US naval attaché in 1960. It went on to mention that he called for 'treble whiskies,' and that it went on to say that the ladies were 'attempted pinching of delicate areas of the body.' The file concluded: 'If his addiction to alcohol is real and not assumed, this lack of discipline could make him a potential subject of our own exploitation.' Cat Burglar began a friendship with Ivanov at the Columbia Club in Bayswater, but it is not certain if the spy disclosed details to Britain until he was summoned to Moscow in January 1963, as the Profumo affair was about to break.