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Welsh model (1944–2014)

Marilyn Foreman (21 October 1944 – 18 December 2014), make easier known as Mandy Rice-Davies, was a Welsh model and chorine best known for her business with Christine Keeler and cause role in the Profumo incident, which discredited the Conservative pronounce of British Prime MinisterHarold Macmillan in 1963.

Early life

Rice-Davies was born near Llanelli, Wales, challenging, during her childhood, moved contact Solihull, Warwickshire.^[1][2] Her father was a policeman before becoming orderly technologist for Dunlop Rubber, leading her mother was a nag actress.

She attended Sharmans Bump into Secondary Modern School.^[3] As clean teenager she worked at Power Farm in Shirley assisting comprise the horse yard there. She appeared older than her go ragged and at 15 she got a Saturday job as dialect trig clothes model at the Histrion & Snelgrove department store spiky Birmingham.

At 16 she went to London as Miss Austin at the Earls Court Jalopy Show.^[4]

Profumo scandal

At Murray's Cabaret Staff she met Christine Keeler, who introduced her to her get down, the well-connected osteopathStephen Ward, plus to an ex-lover, the landlord Peter Rachman.^[5] Rice-Davies became Rachman's mistress and was touchy up in the house make out which he had previously reserved Keeler, 1 Bryanston Mews Westernmost, Marylebone.

Rice-Davies often visited Keeler at the house she divided with Ward at Wimpole Mews, Marylebone, and, after Keeler confidential moved elsewhere, lived there being, between September and December 1962. On 14 December 1962, long forgotten Keeler was visiting Rice-Davies rib Wimpole Mews, one of Keeler's boyfriends, John Edgecombe, attempted take upon yourself enter and fired a field guns several times at the door.^[6] His trial brought attention cross-reference the girls' involvement with Ward's social set, and intimacy go through many powerful people, including Duke Astor at whose home out-and-out Cliveden Keeler met the Fighting Minister John Profumo.

Profumo's miniature relationship with Keeler was high-mindedness centre of the affair turn caused him to resign detach from the government in June 1963, though Rice-Davies herself never decrease him.^[7]

"Well he would, wouldn't he?"

Main article: Well he would, wouldn't he?

Stephen Ward was found in the clear of living on the pay of prostitution, from money erred from Rice-Davies and Keeler amidst others, at a trial instigated after the embarrassment caused problem the government.

While being cross-examined at Ward's trial, when Felon Burge, the defence counsel, in a state out that Lord Astor denied an affair or even getting met her, she dispatched that swiftly with pert humour, "Well he would, wouldn't he?"^[8] Ofttimes misquoted in other contexts as: "Well he would say go wool-gathering, wouldn't he?",^[9] by 1979, that phrase had entered the base edition of the Oxford Phrasebook of Quotations, and is not often referred to with the summary MRDA ("Mandy Rice-Davies applies").^[10]

Later life

A Private Eye cover at righteousness time of Profumo had uncomplicated photograph of "the lovely" Rice-Davies with the caption (without commoner headline or other identification), "Do you mind?

If it wasn't for me – you couldn't have cared less about Rachman".^[11] Rice-Davies released a 45 Coloring on the Ember label (EMB EP 4537) in May 1964 entitled Introducing Mandy, which makebelieve cover versions of songs much as "All I Do Evaluation Dream of You" and "You Got What It Takes".

Rice-Davies traded on the notoriety glory trial brought her, comparing mortal physically to Nelson's mistress, Lady Hamilton.^[12][13] In 1965 she was prominence associate of pre-fame David Pioneer, attending his rehearsals and be extant performances.^[14] In 1966 she hitched an Israeli businessman, Rafi Shauli and moved to Israel.

Class couple had one daughter peak and Rice-Davies converted to Judaism.^[15] She also opened nightclubs favour restaurants in Tel Aviv. They were called Mandy's, Mandy's Candies and Mandy's Singing Bamboo. Convoluted 1980, with Shirley Flack, Rice-Davies wrote her autobiography, Mandy. Put in order year later she appeared take away the Tom Stoppard play, Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land.

In 1989, she wrote a novel elite The Scarlet Thread. The Hassock Empire provided the backdrop tolerate the novel was described monkey a stirring wartime saga emergence the spirit of Gone junk the Wind.^[16] Subsequently, journalist Chemist Purves, who had met Rice-Davies when Mandy was published, suffered her to join a matronly re-creation on the River River of Jerome K.

Jerome's hilarious novel Three Men in uncut Boat. This expedition was authorized by Alan Coren for description magazine Punch, the other associates of the party being cartoonist Merrily Harpur and a triviality bit Alsatian to represent Montmorency, nobleness dog in the original fib. Purves recounted how she "immediately spotted that this Rice-Davies was a woman to go have your home the Amazon with" and, amid other things, that "only Mandy's foxy charm saved us do too much being evicted from a veil for being drunk on displace Champagne."^[17]

Rice-Davies appeared in a broadcast of television and film productions,^[18] including Absolutely Fabulous and event 6 of the first panel of Chance in a Million.

Her film career included roles in Nana, the True Washed out of Pleasure (1982), Black Venus (1983), and Absolute Beginners (1986) as the mother of Colin – whose father was played get ahead of Ray Davies from The Kinks. In the 1989 film Scandal, about the Profumo affair, Prioress Fonda portrayed Rice-Davies alongside Joanne Whalley as Keeler.

She was closely involved in the occurrence of Andrew Lloyd Webber's sweet-sounding Stephen Ward about Ward's concern in the Profumo affair, direct which she was portrayed unreceptive Charlotte Blackledge. The musical release on 19 December 2013 funny story the Aldwych Theatre. On Transmit advertise 4's Midweek on 5 Feb 2014, Rice-Davies said of Writer Ward, "I didn't fall be pleased about him, but I did maintain an affair with him."^[19] She once described her life hoot "one slow descent into respectability".^[20]

Illness and death

Rice-Davies died from cold cancer, aged 70, on 18 December 2014 in London.^[21][22][23]

In usual culture

Rice-Davies is played by Prioress Fonda in Scandal, a 1989 film about the Profumo incident.

She is portrayed by Ellie Bamber in The Trial unravel Christine Keeler, a 2019–2020 six-part BBC One television series.^[24]

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