The Profumo Affair: The Sex, Spies and Scandal That Brought Down a Government

In the summer of 1961, a 19 year old model climbed out of a swimming pool at a Buckinghamshire country estate, and a British government started dying without anyone in the room realising it yet. By the time the fallout finished two years later, a cabinet minister had lied to Parliament and resigned in disgrace, an osteopath had killed himself rather than face a guilty verdict, a prime minister had quit citing his health, and an entire government had lost the next election. The Profumo affair...