This year we'll get justice for my mum Christine

Keeler's son says pardon for perjury is deserved

- BY DAN WARBURTON

THE family of Christine Keeler, whose affair with war minister John Profumo in the 1960s rocked the country, say she must be cleared of her perjury conviction this year.

In 1963, the revelation of married Secretary of State for War Profumo's fling with the 21-year-old model was a political bombshell, and was shortly followed by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's resignation.

So when Christine was convicted of perjury in an unrelated case later that year, and jailed for nine months, some saw the case as just a way to smear her name.

Christine died at 75 in 2017 but her family are on a mission to clear her of the conviction. In her will she begged her son, Seymour Platt, to "tell the truth about her life".

The family lodged a 300-page dossier in May that calls for a royal prerogative of mercy, which would allow the King to pardon her.