Prince Philip named in FBI’s secret files on Profumo affair, linked to Christine Keeler & Mandy Rice-Davies

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Prince Philip named in FBI’s secret files on Profumo affair, linked to Christine Keeler & Mandy Rice-Davies

His role in one of the most notorious scandals of the 20th century has long been a source of speculation.

Now it has been revealed that Prince Philip was named in top-secret FBI documents about the Profumo affair in the early 1960s.

The papers show the FBI had been told the Duke of Edinburgh was personally “involved” with Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies, the two women at the centre of the **** scandal that brought down the government.

Files from the US Department of Justice show the crucial memo was written by J Edgar Hoover, then director of the FBI – and it can be revealed after a five-year quest by the MoS seeking relevant documents under ********* freedom of information laws.

At the heart of the scandal was the married secretary of state for war John Profumo, who had denied in the Commons in March 1963 that he had a ******* relationship with teenage showgirl Keeler.

He was forced to resign months later when proof of the affair became public.

The scandal had national security implications because Keeler was also sleeping with Russian military attache Yevgeny Ivanov.

Camera IconMandy Rice-Davies (1944 – ) who rose to fame for her part in the ‘Profumo Affair’ sits in a car with Christine Keeler (1942 – ) who was also a model and showgirl. Credit: Keystone/Getty Images

In the fallout, well-connected osteopath Stephen Ward, who had introduced Keeler to Profumo at a party, was charged with living off the immoral earnings of Keeler and her friend Rice-Davies.

He took a fatal overdose and ***** three days after he was convicted.

In the newly disclosed document, Thomas Corbally, a US businessman involved in industrial espionage, who agreed to be interviewed by the FBI about his friendship with Ward, makes the claim about Philip.

A cable sent by Hoover to the US embassy in London on June 20, 1963 reads: “Corbally also stated there was a rumour Prince Philip may have been involved with these two ******.”

Philip’s links to the Profumo affair formed a key storyline in the

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series The Crown.

Sir Anthony Blunt, the Queen’s curator of art later disclosed to be a ******* spy, warns Philip that he will expose his relationship with Ward when the Duke tackles him over his treachery.

In his evidence to the FBI, Corbally said he did not believe the charges against Ward.

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