Russian Tourists Flock to Site of Profumo's Notorious Affair

Birmingham Post › April 12, 2004

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Country house hotel Cliveden, forever associated with the 1960s Profumo scandal, is becoming a favourite haunt of Russians anxious to discover the part a former Soviet diplomat played in the affair.

In 1961, Cliveden in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, hosted 19-year-old model Christine Keeler and the two men she was involved with - war minister John Profumo and Soviet naval attach Yevgeny Ivanov.

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Russian Tourists Flock to Site of Profumo's Notorious Affair

The scandal, at the height of the Cold War, led to Profumo's disgrace and...

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