THE MAIL ON SUNDAY: His role in one of the most notorious scandals of the 20th century has long been a source of speculation.
Now the Mail on Sunday can reveal that Prince Philip was named in top-secret FBIdocuments about the Profumo affair in the early 1960s.
The papers show the FBI had been told the Duke of Edinburgh was personally 'involved' with Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies, the two women at the centre of the sex scandal that brought down the government.
Files from the US Department of Justice show the crucial memo was written by J Edgar Hoover, then director of the FBI – and it can be revealed after a five-year quest by the MoS seeking relevant documents under American freedom of information laws.
At the heart of the scandal was the married secretary of state for war John Profumo, who had denied in the Commons in March 1963 that he had a sexual relationship with teenage showgirl Keeler. He was forced to resign months later when proof of the affair became public. » |Chris Hastings for The Mail On Sunday | Sunday, July 21, 2024
