Ab-Fab Fans: Notorious Profumo sex scandal model Mandy Rice-Davies dies after short battle with canc

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Mandy Rice-Davies, a key figure in the 1963 Profumo affair, has died aged 70 after a short battle with cancer, it emerged this morning.

The former model was central to the furore which erupted after John Profumo, then Minister for War, lied in the Commons about his affair with her friend Christine Keeler, who was also sleeping with a suspected Russian spy.

The scandal contributed to the resignation of then-Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in October 1963 and the toppling of his Conservative government the following year.


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She got a few shout-outs in AbFab over the years...and played Dream Patsy in the Hospital episode...RIP