Christine Keeler

Born in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, Keeler was brought up by her mother and stepfather in a house made from two converted railway carriages in the Buckinghamshire village of Wraysbury (now part of Berkshire). At the age of 15, she found work as a model at a dress shop in London's Soho. At 17, she gave birth to a son after an affair with a man called Jim, an African-American sergeant from Lakenheath Air Force base. The child was born prematurely on 17 April 1959, and survived just six days.

That summer, Keeler left Wraysbury, staying briefly in Slough with a friend before heading for London. She initially worked as a waitress at a restaurant in Baker Street and there met Maureen O’Connor, a girl who worked at Murray’s Cabaret Club in Soho. She introduced Keeler to the owner, Percy Murray, who hired her almost immediately as a topless showgirl. While at Murray's she met Stephen Ward. Soon the two were living together with the outward appearance of being a couple, but according to her, it was a platonic "brother and sister" type of relationship. Read Less