Christine Keeler, a product of poverty who was unable to answer back
She seemed so in control, Christine Keeler. Silent, lovely, her head up, defiant. But we now know that when the scandal broke over her affair with John Profumo, the minister for war, in 1963, she wasn't in control at all. She was silent in that storm in the way a child is silent— because it's the only thing she could do.