Tuesday, December 05, 2017

"The Last Survivor of a Story That Gripped Great Britain and the World More Than 50 Years Ago"

"Platt said his mother was from a generation where there was 'great shame' and she had felt it when she recalled her past. 'But she shouldn't have because, looking back, there was real good that came out of what happened. It did pull the curtain back, and there were changes in society that were needed.'
"He said she was a devoted, loving mother.
"'She was a good, decent person, and she got a very unfair label that was hard for her to live with.'
"The press vilified her, he said."
Caroline Davies at The Guardian writes an obit for Christine Keeler.

Tamsin Blanchard at The Guardian in 2002 talks with Lewis Morley, who took the most famous photograph of Keeler.

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