Poor Stephen
James Fox, 23 July 1987
An Affair of State: The Profumo Case and the Framing of Stephen Ward
by Phillip Knightley and Caroline Kennedy.
Cape, 268 pp., £12.95, May 1987,0 224 02347 0 Show More
by Phillip Knightley and Caroline Kennedy.
Cape, 268 pp., £12.95, May 1987,
Honeytrap: The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward
by Anthony Summers and Stephen Dorril.
Weidenfeld, 264 pp., £12.95, May 1987,0 297 79122 2 Show More
by Anthony Summers and Stephen Dorril.
Weidenfeld, 264 pp., £12.95, May 1987,
“... throw episodes you would rather have forgotten. But the Profumo case, which should be called the Stephen Ward case, will not go down. The longer it is around, the uglier it gets. It is a shocking story, which will continue to discredit its participants, all the more so for as long as they pretend, like Lord Denning, that there was no injustice perpetrated ... ”