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Mandy Rice-Davies saw the Profumo affair as an adventure, not a scandal

Plus: the hollow words of the Brighton bomber

Arriving at court for the trial, Mandy Rice-Davies saw some people throwing eggs at Keeler, and decided the same thing mustn’t happen to her: ‘So when I got out of the car I put on a big smile and waved and nobody threw any eggs'. Photo: Evening Standard / Hulton Archive / Getty Images
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