Timeline to her life

Christine meets the then Marilyn Davies, later to be known as Mandy Rice-Davies, at Murray’s Cabaret. ​They quickly become friends and soon move to a flat at 71 Comeragh Road.
(Christine notes: there for ‘three or four months’, ‘I don’t think we worked [at Murray’s] for the last month’).
 

November: Christine introduces Mandy to Peter Rachman and Mandy meets Stephen Ward for the first time.
 

Nov 4: Lucky Gordon, who is living in Denmark, is sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for stabbing a girl and the deportation process back to the UK starts.
 

Christine becomes Peter Rachman's mistress.

Jan: Mandy leaves Dolphin Square, Christine is now living there alone. - TTAL

Jan: Stephen introduces Christine to a friend of his, Paul Mann, Christine describes him as a wild man, racing driver, bridge player. They become friends. - TTAL

Jan 1962: Christine has an “illegal” abortion at her flat in Dolphin Square, it doesn't go well, and is she is left very sick. By sheer luck, a childhood friend, Peter Lewin, arrives and finds Christine very unwell and takes her to Hospital, (The Chelsea Hospital for Women) in Dovehouse Street. – TTAL, Find hand Account.

Feb 21: Sir Godfrey Nicholson MP speaks to the FO/MI5 after he has met Ivanov through Stephen Ward – MI5 files.  

Feb 28: Sir Godfrey Nicholson MP sends a letter to Ivanov setting out H.M.G. view on disarmament. – MI5 files.  

Mar 6: Sir Godfrey Nicholson MP tells FO/MI5 that Ivanov is pressing him on H.M.G. View on Berlin – MI5 files.  

Mar 8: Sir Godfrey Nicholson MP sends a letter to Ivanov setting out H.M.G. view on Berlin. – MI5 files.  

Mar 13: Sir Godfrey Nicholson MP tells FO/MI5 that Ivanov is pressing him on H.M.G. View on the Oder-Neisse line - (border between Germany and Poland) – MI5 files.  

Mar 14: Sir Godfrey Nicholson MP sends a letter to Ivanov setting out H.M.G. view on the Oder-Neisse line. – MI5 files.  Ivanov leaves the UK for the USSR – MI5 files.  

Mar or Apr: Christine’s account of Gordons attack at her flat in Dolphin square. Christine had started smoking dope and going to clubs where you could buy it. Whilst out with a few friends, including Paul Mann, they went to one club and Gordon was there. Gordon promised not to be any trouble and hung around the group.  

Everyone was invited back for a party at Christine flat, and Gordon towed along as well. With everyone getting stoned and listening to music, Gordon finds a small axe that had been left in the flat for making kindling. With this hatchet he demands everyone leave, and they do. He throws Paul Mann out as well saying “if you call the police, I will kill you and her”.

Christine says in her book, “I don’t blame Paul, what could he have done”.  With nearly everyone gone he rapes Christine and holds her and another girl, “Linda”, for two days until Christine escapes.The police are called and Christine presses charges. Christine is put under pressure from Lucky's family, and she drops charges. – TTAL & referred to in the June 1963 LG court case.  

Apr 1962: After the case is dropped, Gordon breaks into Christine’s Flat in Dolphins Square – she runs out nearly naked to get the police. – TTAL, Referred to in the 1963 LG court case.  Gordon starts stalking Christine, waiting outside her flat. – MI5 Files, Referred to in the 1963 court case.  

Christine leaves Dolphin Square and returns to Wimpole Mews ‘for a little while’. TTAL  Gordon continues calling and stalking Christine at Wimpole Mews. TTAL, Stephen Ward interviews with met police.

May 1962: Christine meets and moves in with Michael Lambton in Belgravia and they get engaged. -TTAL, SWCC  May 28, 1962: Stephen Ward reports to FO/MI5 - Ivanov has sent him a letter thanking Sir Godfrey Nicholson for his help and that he expected to see Stephen in June.  Stephen goes on to say Ivanov and indeed himself were very anxious to know when the bomb would arrive in Germany, he says he made various enquires to various people about a year before.  He also says that he was delivering documents to the Russian Embassy for Sir Nicholas, they both through the Russians would pay more attention to documents that they got from a side channel. - Mi5 Files  

Jun 2: Ivanov returns to the UK from the USSR – MI5 files.  

Jul 5: Christine and Mandy take a liner to US, arriving 

July 11: They arrive in America. Michael Lambton who is working in Philadelphia, has paid  for their travel. – CK Passport  

Jul 18: Christine and Mandy fly back from US. At some time, she breaks up with Michael.  – CK Passport 

July: Christine returns to 17 Wimpole Mews. TTAL  Stephen introduces Christine to Paula Hamilton-Marshall and Kim Proctor - they will all become good friends  
Sep 1962: Christine Paula Hamilton-Marshall introduces Johnny Edgecombe to Christine. – TTAL  

Sep: Christine and Kim Proctor move to Sheffield Terrace and Johnny Edgecombe moves in soon afterwards. - TTAL
 

Christine buys a gun, a Luger, for £20 on the black market, for protection from Lucky Gordon. - TTAL
 

Sep: Christine and Johnny Edgecombe start an affair. - TTAL
 

Sep or Oct: Mandy moves into 17 Wimpole Mews with Stephen. – TTAL, Mandy
 

Oct: Lucky Gordon punches Christine to the ground, when she and a friend called Jackie Brown are returning from a hairdresser near Comeragh Road. - TTAL
 

Oct 16: Cuban Missile Crisis begins. America had deployed nuclear weapons in Italy and Turkey, the Soviet Union countered this by trying to deploy warheads to Cuba, 90 miles off the coast of America. There was a blockade designed to stop Soviet Union ships from brining the bomb to Cuba and the crisis is generally thought of a the closest the planet has come to nuclear war.
 

Oct 20: Christine and Edgecombe move to a Bayswater Hotel. - TTAL
 

Oct 24: Stephen Ward informs the FO/MI5 that he had just had a conversation with Ivanov, in which he said - in the Cuban missile crisis there was absolutely no opportunity for either Russia or America to compromise, and Russia was looking to the UK for there one hope of conciliation. – MI5 files.
 

Oct 25: Sir Godfrey Nicholson tells the FO/MI5 that Ivanov has been to see him and requested the British government to consider working towards negotiations at a summit, and that the embassy knew he was making this approach. – MI5 files.

Stephen Ward tells the FO/MI5 the same story – MI5 files.
 

Lord Astor tells Lord Arran that a Russian official is seeking to pass information to the British Government urgently. – MI5 files.
 

Oct 25: Christine asks Ward for her old room back. - TTAL
 

Oct 26: Stephen Ward calls Lord Arran the then Permanent Under-Secretary to arrange a meeting with Eugene Ivanov. - Parliament debate 17.06.63, MI5 papers
 

Oct 27: Ward takes Eugene Ivanov to Lord Arran’s house. Ivanov stated that he "wished to get a message to the British government by indirect means asking for them to call a summit forthwith”. (Parliament debate 17.06.63 and – MI5 files.
 

Oct 27/28: Lucky Gordon chases Christine, Edgecombe slashes Gordon across the face, Gordon needs 17 stitches. - TTAL, JE Trial.
 

That night Ward comes to the hotel and collects Christine's clothes. - TTAL
 

Oct 28: Cuban Missile Crisis comes to an end, Khrushchev withdraws and removes the missiles.
Christine goes with Edgecombe to Brentford for four days to his friend’s house. – TTAL
Lord Arran had dinner at Cliveden with Lord Astor, Ivanov and Stephen Ward – MI5 files.
 

Oct: Stephen sets up a date for Christine with a friend of his, Michael Eddowes, a lawyer turned businessman who owned a chain of restaurants. He is wealthy and single, Stephen thinks this may be a great fit for Christine, however, she is not at all interested in Michael, “he was too old”. - TTAL, ME docs
 

Oct 31: Christine, Stephen, Ivanov and Rosemary Wells are at 17 Wimpole Mews when William Shepherd (Conservative MP) visits. Christine and Rosemary Wells spends night there.
 

Oct 31: Christine breaks up with Johnny Edgecombe. -TTAL

Christine stays at 17 Wimpole Mews for a few days in October. - TTAL 

Jan 3:  - Stephen Ward takes Miss X to his flat Bryanston Mews and shows her the infamous two-way mirror - (An Affair of State) 

existence of two this way mirror was confirmed Feb 2014. It is unclear if this mirror was used to blackmail or just for voyeurism.

Jan: Stephen is interviewed by MI5 and talks about Russian file technics and the shooting
He talks about Gordon “stalking” Christine and that he had Gordon arrested and then “bailed him” out of sympathy.

Jan 16/17: Johnny Edgecombe committal proceedings. Christine gives evidence.  Jan 19: Gordon fined £5 at Marlborough Street for possession of offensive weapon, a gravity knife. Christine sends Lucky the £5 to cover the fine.  

Jan 22: Mandy, Nina Gadd and Nina’s fiancé meet Christine. It transpires the fiancé is a journalist working for The Sunday Pictorial.  

Jan 23: Christine signs a contract to sell her story and leaves them the “Darling...” letter from Profumo as proof.  

Jan 26: Chief Inspector Burrows serves notice on Christine about the Edgecombe trial. Christine tells him about her relationship with Profumo.  Christine's relationship with Stephen, falls to pieces very quickly: Christine is interviewed by the police and tells them everything - Profumo, the bomb. - MI5 papers

Jan 27/29 - Christine relents under continued pressure and agrees to meet Lucky Gordon at The Flamingo Club. Christine agrees to meet him again at his brother's flat in Leytonstone. The trial transcripts indicate an agreement is made between Lucky and Christine, if they meet up this once, he will leave her alone. She returns to Ward, at Wimpole Mews.  ”I knew I could not get away” - Christine's testimony in court

Jan 29: Stephen Ward writes to the director general of MI5 to say, amongst other things that Christine is a drug addict. - MI5 Papers 

Jan 29: Eugene Ivanov is recalled to Moscow and he leaves Britain.  

Jan 29 Recent MI5 papers - The US embassy is told that the Daily Mirror has a story that could bring down the MacMillan government About Profumo, Ivanov and Keeler  

Jan 29 John Profumo has a meeting with the Director General of MI5, R Hollis, and lets him know that there may be a story from Christine Keeler, and he thinks she is now a drug addict. - MI5 Papers  

Jan 31: Christine wants to talk to the police and someone in the drugs unit as she is concerned that Stephen is trying to get her “put away” for drugs.  

Jan: At some time in January, John Lewis ex-MP shares the story about Christine and Profumo with George Wigg (Labour MP). George Wigg asks for more information.  

Jan End: Recent MI5 papers - Profumo reported that Lord Astor has seen him and warned him that Christine is deteriorating rapidly, and she has sold her story to the Sunday Pictorial.

Feb: John Lewis puts pressure on Christine to have an affair, he offers her £30,000 to live with him. (It has been argued that Lewis offered her £30k for information to bring down the government and this is the same £30k in Chief Inspector Samuel Herbert bank account 1966 - see 1966)  

Feb 3: News of the World publishes front page photo of Christine in bikini: ‘Model in shots case. Attractive Christine Keeler, a 20-year-old, London Model ...’  

Feb 4: Stephen Ward's flat is broken into and the photo of him and three girls taken by Profumo at Cliveden is stolen along with one with Profumo. Ward phones the police and gives a statement the next day.

Feb 8: Johnny Edgecombe trial adjourned. Christine agrees to do a story with the Sunday Pictorial story, as does Mandy.

Christine and Mandy move to a flat in the Edgware Road (22a Park West)

Paul Mann - says later Mandy and Christine fell out over the money, Christine had given Mandy £25 from the Sunday Pictorial advance and Mandy expected more, as she had help set up the meeting. Mandy moves out - MI5 docs

Mar 22 or Mar 23: - Michael Eddowes visits Christine’s mother and tells her Christine is a spy, and Christine would go to prison for treason, but offered £30,000 (amount varies -Recent MI5 papers say between 5 and 10 thousand) if she could confirm she was in love with Ivanov and that she had obtained information from Profumo for Ivanov ‘only as a joke’.
 

Mar 24: Keelers mother and father report the incident at Colnbrook police station.
 

MI5 documents and police records say Christine's mother and step father went to the police - Christine would be paid 5-10 if she said she was in love with Ivanov, and said she passed info between Profumo to Ivanov “as a joke”.

Mar 23: Mandy visits Julie, Christine’s mother, in Wraysbury with two reporters, asking where Christine is, and the reporters offer £70.
 

Mar 24: News of the World report that Christine sent a postcard to Paula Hamilton from Spain. “Christine says Ivanov is a friend of hers”.
 

​Mar 25: George Wigg MP appears on BBC Panorama, and states that it is his view that Stephen Ward and the Soviet Naval Attaché Ivanov were security risks. (Harold Wilson - Parliament debate 17.06.63)
 

Mar 26: Stephen Ward meets George Wigg MP at House of Commons - Ward tells a story of a London underworld of vice, violence, drugs and crime George Wigg reports to Harold Wilson MP who brings it to the Prime Minister. (Harold Wilson - parliament debate 17.06.63)
 

Mar 27: Meeting was called at the Houses of Parliament between the home secretary, Henry Brooke, Met chief constable, Sir Joseph Simpson, and the head of MI5, Roger Hollis. It is alleged that at this meeting it was agreed the police needed to “Get” Stephen Ward. (BBC Documentary- Tom Mangold 2020)
 

Mar 28: Christine flies back from Spain to England, Kim and Christine are Interviewed on return.
 

Mar 29: Recent MI5 files - Mr Eddowes reports to special branch - he was told by keeler that Ivanov had asked her to find out from Profumo the date nuclear warheads would be delivered to West Germany. She said she had not done this. But went on to say, Profumo had told her that a nuclear explosion had nearly happened in England when a rat gnawed through a cable.
 

Kim and Christine are apparently taken to top floor of The Hilton Hotel at Heathrow by people who claim to be from the security services. Christine is warned that they will “get Stephen Ward” and, unless she helps, Christine will go to prison, and they will “throw away the key” - (unwritten account)

Christine moves in with Paula and her brother John Hamilton-Marshall, First Floor 33 Devonshire Street. They have a housekeeper, Olive Brooker.

Apr 1: Christine goes to the Old Bailey to explain non-appearance at the Johnny Edgecombe trial. Waiting outside the court for Christine to arrive is a crowd of onlookers and photographers, along with Lucky Gordon who accosts her, needing five police officers to subdue him. (Picture) 

Apr 1: Investigation of Stephen Ward by the metropolitan police begins.
 

Apr 4/5: Police interview Christine about Stephen Ward.
 

Profumo takes legal action against the British distributors of an Italian magazine that had printed a story hinting at his guilt. He is awarded costs and £50 damages.
 

Apr 7: News of the World publishes Christine story by Peter Earle.
 

Apr 12: Gordon comes to 33 Devonshire Street and assaults John Hamilton-Marshall. The police are called, though it is unclear if Lucky Gordon is arrested.
 

Christine is separately assured by police that Lucky Gordon will be “off the streets for a week or so”
 

Apr 17: Christine is told - Stephen Ward stands surety for Lucky Gordon who is being held by the police, and Lucky Gordon is released. (See Jan 1963 Ward confirmed he has previously posted bail for Gordon - it is unclear if this the same event or another time)
 

In court Gordon would state he spoke to Stephen. On this night.
 

John Hamilton-Marshall and Christine slap each other over something nasty he said to his sister Paula. Chris is left with a cut above her eye. "This wasn’t so much fighting, as wrestling on the couch. Christine Keeler was calling for Mrs Brooker. She came in and called for Paula, and they both pulled me off Christine. Paula on one side, Mrs Brooker on the other"? JHM court testimony.
 

Sometime around 9pm JHM leaves sometime after Rudolph “Truello” Fenton and Clarence Camacchio arrive. Christine is very clear that this is when she first met them.
 

Christine aways maintained that Gordon assaulted her, in her statement to the police and in court,

She said Gordon was waiting outside for me when I left. He punched me and kicked me when I fell to the floor. I managed to make my way up into to the building and up the stairs, into the flat where Paula and I locked the door. (Christine’s version of the assault)

What really happens that night?

Christine, Fenton, Camacchio and Paul leave the upstairs flat to go dancing.

Christine is the first one out of the front door the others are still making their way down.

(Both Fenton, Camacchio – testify to this in court)

Gordon is waiting and confronts Christine. Gordon says in court “Christine said she was pleased I got my face slashed”.

Gordon hits Christine

(Gordons - testimony in court, in fact he says it twice)

Gordon goes on to say that Christine then ran away from him back into the building, running into the front door.

Gordon then follows Christine through the entrance and continues the assault.

(Both Fenton, Camacchio – testify to this in court)

Fenton is at the bottom of the stair, Camacchio behind him and Paula further up the stairs.

They testify that they were “frozen to the spot by the viciousness of the assault”, Gordon was punching and kicking Christine.

Fenton comes forward and grabs Gordons arm to stop the assault. Fenton asks Gordon, something like “what do you think you are doing?” and Gordon quickly leaves. (Fenton’s testimony)

The police are called and at 12:45 am and Dr Francis Hughes examines Christine's injuries.
 

Fenton and Camacchio beseech Christine not to involve them with the police, one man is married, the other on probation and they are both West Indian. They hide in the flat when the police turn up.
 

Christine's account of events to the police, do not include the witnesses, Fenton and Camacchio. (This will prove devastating for Christine)
 

Christine also notes that Chief Inspector Samuel Herbert and inspector Burrows are most interested in Lucky Gordon's connection to Stephen Ward, how she had first met Lucky through Stephen and Stephen's interest in West Indian girls.
 

Apr 18: Christine moves to Primrose Hill
 

Apr 19: Lucky Gordon arrested for assault on Christine, He is also interviewed and gives a statement to Chief Inspector Samuel Herbert for the Stephen Ward case.
 

Apr 23: Chief Inspector Samuel Herbert arranges for the arrest of Mandy Rice-Davies at Heathrow for having a driving license with false date of birth. Mandy's bail is set at an affordable amount, and she is held in Holloway Prison for nine days.
 

May: Mandy Rice-Davies appears at West London Magistrates’ Court and later flies to Majorca
 

Mandy is arrested again returning for holiday, this time in connection with a rented TV. She is released after giving a statement against Stephen Ward.
 

​Apr 26: Lucky Gordon committal proceedings. Christine gives her address as 33 Devonshire St.

May: Christine Keeler Chair photo-shoot by Lewis Morley at Edgar Brind’s Greek Street studio, London.

May 7: Recent MI5 papers - Stephen complains to the PMs principle secretary that the police enquiry is ruining his business and that the “Attachment between Profumo and keeler was deeper then reported”
 

May 17/18: Christine flies to Nice, France, presumably for a modelling job (shots from the Riviera) per passport stamp
 

May 19: Ward writes to Home Secretary Henry Brooke and later to opposition leader Harold Wilson complaining about police persecution.
 

May 20: Christine sees Ward at Bryanston Mews West for probably the last time.
 

May 21: Stephen Ward gives a statement to the press, however no newspaper will print the story without proof.

May 25: Labour MP George Wigg raises a question in the House of Commons about possible security matters.
 

May 27: Edgecombe’s appeal dismissed.
 

May 27: Robin Drury interviews Christine on tape in London for a book/film story of her life. She talks honestly about the night Lucky Gordon attacked her in April, the two witnesses and John having slapped her.
 

Jun 4: With the Lucky Gordon trial imminent, Profumo expects to be named in court so, in a letter to the Prime Minister, he resigns from the Cabinet, admitting lying to the House of Commons about his relationship with Christine Keeler.
 

Jun 5: Lucky Gordon trial begins at Central Criminal Court for the assault on Christine
 

Jun 6: Gordon, unhappy with his defence, decides to represent himself.
 

​The trial is widely reported particularly an explosive statement in court from Lucky Gordon:-

"She has told me of her past, about Stephen Ward and being that she had known him since she was about 14. And she went to live with him, and since then he has been teaching her to aggravate people. Not only that, but since she turned the age of 17, she has been on the phone working as a call-girl and supporting him."
Lucky Gordon’s explosive statement in court.

Lucky Gordon's statement is front of the Evening News. “Gordon said that Christine had been working as a call girl and supporting Dr Stephen Ward”.
 

Lucky Gordon calls on a number of other witnesses, including Fenton and Camacchio, the police return that they cannot be found.
 

Jun 7: Lucky Gordon is convicted of Actual Bodily Harm against Christine and sentenced to three years' imprisonment.
 

Jun 7: Christine tells Daily Express about seeing Profumo.
 

Robin Drury and a friend Alex ask Christine for £15,000 to turn the tapes into a book. Christine disagrees and they end up burning the tapes. Unbeknownst to Christine, there is a copy.
 

Jun 8: Stephen Ward is arrested and denied bail, he is charged with living off the immoral earnings of Christine, Mandy and some other woman including Ronna Riccardo.
 

Jun 9: Sunday Mirror publish the ‘Darling’ letter from Profumo.
 

News of the World begins the Christine £23,000 story ‘Confessions of Christine’ and continues it on 16 and 23 June. ‘I yielded to this wonderful Huggy bear of a man’.
 

Robin Drury now tells Christine that he still has the tapes, they had burned a copy, and he now wanted £10,000 For them or he would hand them over to the police.
 

Comarcchio was also being offered money by the press to go to the police and say that Christine had lied in the Gordon assault trial, he too was asking Christine for money to keep his silence.
 

Jun 11: Gordon gives notice of appeal.
 

Michael Eddowes tells the newspaper “Ivanov had asked Christine to get secrets from Jack”.
 

Jun 14: Rice-Davies tells police about “The Man in the Mask” and the sex parties.

Jun 17: Debate in Parliament, SECURITY (MR. PROFUMO'S RESIGNATION).
 

Jun 15: (MI5 files released Oct 2022) – even Actor Robert Mitchum is apparently interviewed at his house in Elstree in connection with the Ward case: He said he gave parties where people drank lots and took their clothes off. “Your sort wouldn't like it very much”

Many Rice Davies is linked to Robert Mitchum when he stayed at the savoy. - a sense of the times

Jun 24: Lord Denning starts work on his report into possible security breaches arising from the Profumo scandal.
 

Jun 28: Ward committal proceedings Marylebone Magistrates’ Court.
 

Jul 3: Stephen Ward committed for trial and given bail.
 

Sometime soon after Christine receives an indirect message from Stephen Ward
"..if you don’t put the blame on the police, he'll [Ward] get you as far as the Lucky Gordon case is concerned." - per CK account 1989

Jul 6/7: John Hamilton Marshal gives a statement to police that he was in fact responsible for Christine injuries April 18. - (newspaper report Daily Herald 8/7/1963)
 

Robin Drury hands the tapes over to the police, having not received a payoff from Christine. - not sure of the date but the police have the tape the same weekend.
 

Jul 7: The People newspaper find one of the ‘missing witnesses’ Camacchio “maybe I know something, maybe I don’t. It’s not my business”
 

Jul: Christine meets Lord Denning. Christine is now convinced that Stephen Ward is a Russian Spy, and she tells Denning how Stephen had introduced her, at Wimpole Mews, to Roger Hollis (head of MI5, a suspected Russian spy) and Anthony Blunt (since confirmed as a Russian spy) and about Sir Geoffrey Nicholson MP meeting Eugene Ivanov. She told him Stephen had once got her to take documents to the Russian embassy, and how Stephen had once said President Kennedy was too dangerous and needed to be “put out of the picture”.
 

Lord Denning met with Stephen on 3 occasions for his investigation, and Profumo on two occasions.

July 16: Superintendent Axon interview one of the missing witnesses from the April LG assault - Peter Camacchio
 

July 18: The other missing witness Fenton with his solicitor visit the police.
 

Jul 22: Trial of Stephen Ward starts. Charges include living off the immoral earnings of a number of women.
 

During the trial Mandy is questioned regarding her affair with Lord Astor, and that Lord Astor had denied any affair. Mandy replies with the iconic quote “He would say that, wouldn’t he?”
 

Christine relationship with Major Jim Eynan and Profumo's £20 gift for her mother are used as evidence of prostitution.
 

Mandy’s £100 rent cheque from Lord Astor and money she had received after sex with Dr Savundra, “the Indian Doctor” (see Oct1962) was used as evidence of prostitution linked to Stephen. 

To Ronna Riccardo great credit, at trial she retracts her police statement, that she had sex for money and given it to Stephen. She accuses Chief Inspector Samuel Herbert making her lie and threatening her family.

A prostitute called Vickie Barrett gave evidence that Stephen had introduced her to men for sex on a number of occasions and kept the money, evidence that seemed improbable.
​
Jul 30: The Lucky Gordon appeal of his conviction in the assaults of Christine is upheld by Lord Parker.

Lord Parker’s note to Stephen Ward's trial regarding this appeal is ambiguous.

Lucky Gordon is freed from prison soon after. 

It might well be that the complainant’s, Ms Keeler, evidence was not completely truthful. It was not for the court to decide​ -

​Lord Parker's note to the Stephen Ward trial.

(Lord Parker's note is often criticised as Christine isn’t condemned as a perjurer. It may be that Lord Parker didn't want to overreach in his statement, or he was pressured not to risk the Ward trial and, having reviewed the original trial, he may have felt some sympathy for Christine who was still clearly the victim of a crime) 

Interestingly - the Gordon was exonerated only because the prosecution did not object.

The court of appeal unusually states in their judgment that Christine "May well have been speaking the truth"

Meanwhile in the Stephen Ward trial, after a damning summing up from Sir Archie Marshall, Stephen Ward, now despairing and convinced he will be found guilty, returns home for the last time.
 

That evening Stephen writes a number of letters to friends before taking an overdose of barbiturates.
 

Jul 31: With Stephen Ward in hospital, in what is seen as one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British legal history, the trial concluded and Stephen is found guilty of living off the immoral earnings  guilty in absentia.
 

Aug 2: Christine is devastated at the news of Stephen suicide attempt and has a panic attack, as recorded in court by Dr M Leser.
 

Aug 3: Stephen Ward dies in ​St Stephen's Hospital Chelsea.

Aug: the Robin Drury tapes of Christine are now in the possession of the courts.
 

Sep 6: Christine, Paula Hamilton-Marshall and Olive Booker are arrested and appear at magistrates’ court. There are several charges including perjury at the Lucky Gordon assault trial.
 

Sep: Christine buys 30 Linhope Street, London NW1, and moves in not long afterwards.
 

Sep 25: Denning report published, the inquiries into the events, key players were interviewed. The report found no breaches of security arising from the Ivanov involvement and ministers had acted appropriately. Even at the time, the report was widely dismissed as a whitewash.

 

Oct 2/4: Committal proceeding in the case against Christine and others for perjury, Magistrate Aubrey Fletcher.
 

Camacchio has also denied Christine’s story, that he had attempted to blackmail her, and Christine is also charged with falsely accusing him of blackmail.
 

Oct 4: Robin Drury does an interview and states - Christine said on tape that Lucky Gordon had not hit her. This is contradicted in court by detective Axion who says the tape does not say that.
 

Oct 18: Seen as out of touch and severely damaged by the Profumo scandal, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan resigns.
 

Nov: Christine is advised to plead guilty to perjury and throw herself on the mercy of the court. She is told the other charges of conspiracy and falsely accusing Camacchio of blackmail will be dropped and she would likely serve 6 months in prison. She is advised if she fights the case, with public opinion against her, she will likely get two years and leave herself open to a civil case on the blackmail charge.
 

Nov 26: Robin Drury is quoted as saying he is penniless - Evening Standard

 

Dec 5: Jeremy Hutchinson, Christine’s barrister, argues that the real crime was Gordons assault, of which there is not doubt. Who witnessed the assault is immaterial.

The Judge argued that “as Fenton pout hi arm out to end the assault, Fenton was part of the assault, and therefore he was a material witness”

(If Fenton had not stepped forward and ended Gordons assault, there would have been no legal grounds to send Christine to prison) 

Dec 6: Christine pleads guilty to perjury in the case against Lucky Gordon.
 

Jeremy Hutchinson, her barrister, pleads her case for leniency in a speech thought of as one of the most brilliant and longest speeches at the Old Bailey. Christine has been the victim of wicked men, including Stephen.

 

“Dr Ward was on his own admission a man without morals. What he lacked in morals he made up for in charm. He had great artistic flair and won his way into a snob world of power and privilege, taking with him young girls. Miss Keeler was one of them, whom he groomed and fashioned – rather a sort of perverted professor Higgins.” - extract from Jeremy Hutchinson speech at the Old Bailey.”

She is sentenced to nine months in Holloway Prison

1964

Jun 8: Christine is released from Holloway after serving six months and returns to live at 30 Linhope Street.
 

Aug - Heavily pregnant friend, Kim Proctor, moves in with Christine.
 

​Oct 16: The ruling Conservative Party loses in the general election, the Profumo affair having destroyed the credibility of its government.

1965

Oct 22: Christine marries James Edward Levermore.

1966

Mar 7: Lord William Astor dies.
 

Apr 16: Chief Inspector Samuel Herbert dies. With a £300 per annum salary, he leaves an unexplained £30,000 in his bank account ​(£200,000 in today's money).
 

Jun 22: Christine has son James Levermore.

1969

Jul 7: David Bailey photographs Christine
 

The News of the World publishes Christine Keeler's memoirs.
 

Oct 2: Independent Television Authority bans ITV stations from carrying commercials for the News of the World that mentioned Keeler or her memoirs.
 

Oct: Both the BBC and ITV announces that any planned appearances by Keeler have been scrapped.

1971

Feb: Christine marries Anthony Platt.
 

Dec 4: Christine has a son, Seymour Platt.

1972

Mid-year: Christine and Anthony Platt separate.

Lucky Gordon is sentenced to six months for stabbing an ex-girlfriend five or six times with a screwdriver

1976

Apr 25: Collin King (previously Colin Keeler) Christine’s father dies. Christine would only find out a few years later

Christine and her son Seymour travel to Rio in Brazil where she has been asked to go over for some interviews with local press. Whilst there, everything changes for Christine, all her money is suddenly gone, her then solicitors who have been dealing with her business affairs stop taking her calls and Christine struggles to return home, Her and her son are stuck in Brazil for several months.

1977

May 27: After an acrimonious legal battle, Christine and Anthony Platt Decree Nisi is granted and their divorce is complete. Son Seymour is made ‘A Ward of Court’.

1978

Jan 18: Christine and Seymour new address: Flat 7, 67 Elm Park Gardens, London.
 

Apr 17: Housed by the council at 25 Dartrey Tower, World’s End Estate, London. The flat was new and completely empty, the council puts in carpet and some kitchen appliances a small amount of furniture as she is deemed destitute.
 

Around this time - Christine met with Lucky Gordon. It was arranged by Frank Crichlow who owed the El Rio club. Christine took her son Seymour, now that Christine had nothing, she needed to hear from Lucky that he would leave her alone. (Nothing but)
 

“I have a vivid memory of that day, Frank with his big beard, he seemed so friendly but clearly in charge, Chris told me he was an important man. There was a group of men and Chris all sitting around in a restaurant, the tables had been cleared. I was sent out to play with the other children while the grownups talked,” – Seymour Platt

1979

To get away from the names Keeler and Platt Christine changes her name to Christine Sloane.

1983

Nothing But ... Christine Keeler by Christine Keeler and Sandy Fawkes (New English Library) is published.
Christine is very unhappy with the finished book and doesn't have the control she wants to make changes.
 

Feb: Mariella Novotny found dead at 41 years of age, she had choked on her own vomit while eating jelly in bed. Mariella had been talking about publishing an expanded memoir on her lifetime of sexual encounters, Christine and others have claimed her death was suspicious.
 

Marriella was also interviewed by Denning, testimony that will be available to the public in 2048.

1984

John Hamilton-Marshal dies, in “An English Affair” by Richard Davenport it is alleged that he committed suicide with Carbon Monoxide poisoning.

1988

Jan 8: Christine appears in Bryan Ferry music video for the song “Kiss and Tell”, alongside Mandy Smith, famous for her relationship with Bill Wyman. It was a long day filming, but Christine didn’t meet Bryan Ferry who only arrived on set after she had left. She was told by the crew Bryan was very shy.
 

Jun 3: Christine appears on Channel 4 show “After Dark” a late-night conversation show.
 

Jun 25: The last time Christine and son Seymour see her mother and her son Jimmy (James), after an innocuous argument, Christine’s mother vows never to speak to her again.

Her book Scandal! by Christine Keeler is published.
 

Scandal the movie is released, staring Joanne Whalley Kilmer and John Hurt.
Christine attends premier at Leicester Square with her son Seymour.
 

April - Christine and Seymour travel to America to publicise film.
 

Jun 26: They rent 38 Oslo Court, Prince Albert Road, London NW8.
 

July: Christine goes to Australia to publicise Scandal.
 

Jul 21: They now move do 60 Tormount Road, London.

1990

Christine buys 129 Edgeley Road, London SW4 6HD

1991

Interview with Channel 4 - on the places important to to Christine growing up.
 

She tells her story about finding a Second World War bomb in the river and taking it home.

1993

Christine Keeler travels to Moscow to meet Eugene Ivanov and publicise his book “The Naked Spy". They meet for the first time since he returned to Russia in 1963.
 

She said how shocked at how old he was, and he wasn't at all well.
 

30 year after the Denning report was published, it is time to release the secret documents to public or destroy them. John Major, then Prime Minister, apparently reviewed the papers and it was decided to keep the records secret until 2048.

1994

Jan 17 - Eugene Ivanov dies

1997

Christine is living at 418 Fairfax Drive, Westcliff on Sea, Essex SS0 9RW, to be near her remaining family

1999

Christine moves to 18 Bruce Grove, London.

2001

The Truth at Last - My Story by Christine Keeler with Douglas Thompson (Sidgwick and Jackson) is published.

2002

Christine was approaches to be in the first season of “I’m a Celebrity, Get me out of here”. Thanks to her fear of spiders, she never regretted saying no.

2006

Mar 9: John Profumo dies.
"I still remember a massive pack of journalists arriving outside Christine's flat in Tottenham" - Seymour

2007

Christine’s son moves to Ireland with his family, to be closer Christine sells 18B Bruce Grove, and buys 4 Cecil St, Holyhead.
​The night before she moves, a removal van with her possessions is stolen.

2008

Christine’s granddaughter is born.

2009

Christine moves back to London, 3 Parkside Court.

2010

Mar 11: Christine moves to 19 Holmoaks House, 47 Bromley Road.
 

Sep 26: Jonny Edgecombe dies.

2012

Jan 10: Julia Ellen Payne, Christine’s mother dies. Christine and her family are not made aware of her death.
 

Secrets and Lies by Christine Keeler with Douglas Thompson (John Blake) is published.

2013

Dec 3: Stephen Ward (musical by Andrew Lloyd Weber) opens at the Aldwych Theatre and closes a few months later. Mandy attends the premiere; Christine never sees it.

2014

Dec 18: Mandy Rice-Davies dies of cancer.

​“My life has been one long descent into respectability” - Mandy Rice-Davies

2017

Mar 15: Lucky Gordon dies.
 

Nov 25/26: Christine sees her family, for what will prove to be the last time.
 

Dec 4: At around 11:15pm, Christine Keeler dies in the The Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington.
 

Dec 16: Christine's funeral at Kensal Green Crematorium, following a horse drawn procession up Ladbroke Grove.

2019

Dec 6: Her son Seymour, granddaughter and daughter in law scatter Christine’s ashes on the Thames near Hythe End, Wraysbury, where she used to play as a child.

Dec 29: The Trial of Christine Keeler premieres on the BBC.

2021

Jun 16: The campaign to overturn and clear Christine Keelers name submits its application for a Royal Pardon to the Secretary of State for Justice. Special thanks to James Harbridge (Solicitor) and Felicity Gerry (Barrister) for their extraordinary help.

2022

Mar 22: Over 250 pages of evidence and legal documents sent to the CCRC (Criminal Case Review Commission) to overturn Christine's 1963 conviction.

2048

Jan 1: Remaining documents from Lord Denning's report are set to be opened to the public, 75 years after it was first published and still secret and highly sensitive. The papers may mention more on the allegations of spying around the scandal and were therefore embarrassing to the secret service, or maybe the papers just mention the names of powerful people who were at sex parties in the early 1960s. However, keeping the papers secret for so long means they must be embarrassing for somebody.
 

Christine always maintained that these papers would exonerate her.