From Keeler to #metoo

#metoo owes something to the model at heart of the Profumo affair and and her son's acknowledgement of it

The name of Christine Keeler, who died earlier this week at age 75, is unlikely to resonate with women in the thick of the #metoo campaign around the world and especially in the US where politicians, journalists and movie moguls are paying the price for decades of entrenched bigotry. They should spare a thought for a woman who, at just 19 years, played a leading role in the Profumo Scandal, which eventually brought down Harold Macmillan’s government in 1963.
 
Notoriety has stalked the strikingly beautiful Keeler ever since. A black and white photo of her modelling nude against a