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Unseen pictures of Profumo scandal mistress Christine Keeler were released by her son yesterday as he revealed there had been a breakthrough in his battle to clear her name.
Seymour Platt has been told that his application to get a posthumous pardon for his late mother is being considered by the Lord Chancellor.
Miss Keeler, pictured here in a patterned cream halter-neck shift dress, went to the grave a national outcast.
It came after an outcry over her affairs with married war minister John Profumo and a Russian spy, which emerged in the publicity surrounding a four-month jail term for perjury in a separate court case.
Mr Platt said his mother, who died aged 75 in 2017, had been wrongly convicted in the December 1963 case – and revealed yesterday he had been told in a letter from the Ministry of Justice that the Lord Chancellor is due to deliver a ruling.
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