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Mandy Rice-Davies dies at the age of 70
 Former model Mandy Rice-Davies, one of the main figures in the 1960s Profumo affair, has died from cancer at the age of 70, her publicist has said.She - along with her friend Christine Keeler - was at the centre of the scandal which threatened to bring down Harold Macmillan's government. Rice-Davies lived with Keeler, whose affair with war minister John Profumo prompted his resignation in 1963. However, she never met the politician herself. Keeler was also said to be having a relationship with Soviet defence attache Yevgeny Ivanov, although Profumo denied in the House of Commons having an affair with her. Says Mark Steyn: The great survivor of Britain's Profumo scandal died of cancer on Thursday, aged 70 and a fine looking woman in a way that her younger sallow hard-faced self never quite was. Mandy Rice-Davies was the tarty, assured, provincial teen who toppled a Conservative prime minister, Harold Macmillan, in the summer of 1963, and eventually his successor, Lord Home. Posted by: badanov 2014-12-21 |
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