The Trial of Christine Keeler review, Culture Whisper
‘We both gave into the most natural instinct there is: the love of a powerful, middle-aged man for a penniless teenage girl. Is that a crime?’
So says the 19-year-old Christine Keeler (Sophie Cookson) in episode two of BBC’s new six-part drama about the Profumo affair, speaking in voice-over as the icky Tory war minister John Profumo (Ben Miles) is on top of her, thrusting. Their affair took place in 1961 and was uncovered in 1963, dismantling Harold MacMillan’s Conservative government. Keeler was hounded in the press, painted as a prostitute, and the rest of her life was tarnished as a result.
