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    The Profumo affair was a major scandal in twentieth-century British politics. John Profumo, the 46-year-old Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan's...
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    John Dennis Profumo CBE (/prəˈfjuːmoʊ/ prə-FEW-moh; 30 January 1915 – 9 March 2006) was a British politician whose career ended in 1963 after a sexual...
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  • Look up Profumo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Profumo may refer to Albert Profumo (1879–1940), English barrister Alessandro Profumo (born 1957)...
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    early 1950s. Her second husband was John Profumo, a British government minister who became the subject of the Profumo affair in 1963. Hobson was born at Sandy...
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  • Profumo, FRSL (born 20 October 1955), is an English novelist. Profumo was born in London, the son of former British government minister John Profumo,...
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    Albert Pier Anthony Profumo, KC (20 April 1879 – 27 March 1940), was an English barrister. The Profumo family are of Italian origin. Profumo was born in Lambeth...
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  • central figures in the 1963 Profumo affair, a British political scandal which brought about the resignation of John Profumo, the Secretary of State for...
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    War, she became sexually involved with a married Cabinet minister, John Profumo, as well as with a Soviet naval attaché, Yevgeny Ivanov. A shooting incident...
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    best known for her association with Christine Keeler and her role in the Profumo affair, which discredited the Conservative government of British Prime...
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  • Pier Anthony Profumo, 4th Baron Profumo, barrister (1879–1940) John Dennis Profumo, 5th Baron Profumo, British politician known for the Profumo affair (1915–2006)...
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