My mum Christine Keeler's final wish: To clear her name

Profumo affair mistress in plea to son... in final sentence of will

- SHERON BOYLE

CHRISTINE Keeler left an impassioned message in her will asking her son to clear her name.

In the last sentence of the document, the model famous for the Profumo Affair asked that he “look after my rights and reputation and do what he can to make sure that the truth is told about events of which I took part during my life”.

Now Seymour Platt has petitioned Justice Minister Robert Buckland to recommend a royal pardon for his mum’s 1963 perjury conviction.

Seymour, 49, says: “I want to put straight the history of her life.”

Christine was at the center of a scandal that shook the establishment.

It emerged in 1963 that the party girl had had an affair with married war minister John Profumo, while also seeing the Russian spy and naval attaché Eugene Ivanov. Profumo, seen as a future prime minister, resigned when his lies about the affair were exposed.