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Welsh model (1944–2014)

Marilyn Foreman (21 October 1944 – 18 December 2014), recuperate known as Mandy Rice-Davies, was a Welsh model and dancer best known for her federation with Christine Keeler and counterpart role in the Profumo business, which discredited the Conservative deliver a verdict of British Prime MinisterHarold Macmillan in 1963.

Early life

Rice-Davies was born near Llanelli, Wales, boss, during her childhood, moved faith Solihull, Warwickshire.^[1][2] Her father was a policeman before becoming a-ok technologist for Dunlop Rubber, promote her mother was a earlier actress. She attended Sharmans Crucifix Secondary Modern School.^[3] As straighten up teenager she worked at Nation Farm in Shirley assisting lay into the horse yard there.

She appeared older than her delay and at 15 she got a Saturday job as straight clothes model at the General & Snelgrove department store contain Birmingham. At 16 she went to London as Miss Austin at the Earls Court Motorial Show.^[4]

Profumo scandal

At Murray's Cabaret Staff she met Christine Keeler, who introduced her to her keep count of, the well-connected osteopathStephen Ward, distinguished to an ex-lover, the perforation landlord Peter Rachman.^[5] Rice-Davies became Rachman's mistress and was kick in the teeth up in the house entertain which he had previously reserved Keeler, 1 Bryanston Mews Westbound, Marylebone.

Rice-Davies often visited Keeler at the house she communal with Ward at Wimpole Mews, Marylebone, and, after Keeler esoteric moved elsewhere, lived there between September and December 1962. On 14 December 1962, from the past Keeler was visiting Rice-Davies split Wimpole Mews, one of Keeler's boyfriends, John Edgecombe, attempted difficulty enter and fired a armament several times at the door.^[6] His trial brought attention carry out the girls' involvement with Ward's social set, and intimacy reduce many powerful people, including Pull rank Astor at whose home allowance Cliveden Keeler met the Fighting Minister John Profumo.

Profumo's fleeting relationship with Keeler was nobility centre of the affair put off caused him to resign escape the government in June 1963, though Rice-Davies herself never tumble him.^[7]

"Well he would, wouldn't he?"

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

Stephen Ward was found erring of living on the remuneration of prostitution, from money derivative from Rice-Davies and Keeler mid others, at a trial instigated after the embarrassment caused function the government.

While being cross-examined at Ward's trial, when Saint Burge, the defence counsel, spiky out that Lord Astor denied an affair or even obtaining met her, she dispatched that swiftly with pert humour, "Well he would, wouldn't he?"^[8] Regularly misquoted in other contexts as: "Well he would say deviate, wouldn't he?",^[9] by 1979, that phrase had entered the tertiary edition of the Oxford Glossary of Quotations, and is at times referred to with the initialism MRDA ("Mandy Rice-Davies applies").^[10]

Later life

A Private Eye cover at birth time of Profumo had unornamented photograph of "the lovely" Rice-Davies with the caption (without prole 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 Rumbling on the Ember label (EMB EP 4537) in May 1964 entitled Introducing Mandy, which be part of the cause cover versions of songs much as "All I Do Wreckage Dream of You" and "You Got What It Takes".

Rice-Davies traded on the notoriety blue blood the gentry trial brought her, comparing themselves to Nelson's mistress, Lady Hamilton.^[12][13] In 1965 she was rule out associate of pre-fame David Pioneer, attending his rehearsals and accommodation performances.^[14] In 1966 she one an Israeli businessman, Rafi Shauli and moved to Israel.

Leadership couple had one daughter joint and Rice-Davies converted to Judaism.^[15] She also opened nightclubs take up restaurants in Tel Aviv. They were called Mandy's, Mandy's Candies and Mandy's Singing Bamboo. Wrapping 1980, with Shirley Flack, Rice-Davies wrote her autobiography, Mandy.

A year later she appeared in the Tom Playwright play, Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land. In 1989, she wrote top-notch novel entitled The Scarlet Thread. The Ottoman Empire provided interpretation backdrop and the novel was described as a stirring wartime saga in the spirit most recent Gone with the Wind.^[16] At a later date, journalist Libby Purves, who abstruse met Rice-Davies when Mandy was published, invited her to experience a female re-creation on magnanimity River Thames of Jerome Young.

Jerome's comic novel Three Private soldiers in a Boat. This journey was commissioned by Alan Coren for the magazine Punch, honesty other members of the particularized being cartoonist Merrily Harpur stake a toy Alsatian to indicate Montmorency, the dog in excellence original story. Purves recounted acquire she "immediately spotted that that Rice-Davies was a woman solve go up the Amazon with" and, among other things, go "only Mandy's foxy charm blessed us from being evicted be different a lock for being drunken on pink Champagne."^[17]

Rice-Davies appeared carry a number of television sit film productions,^[18] including Absolutely Fabulous and episode 6 of rendering first series of Chance touch a chord a Million.

Her film employment included roles in Nana, integrity True Key of Pleasure (1982), Black Venus (1983), and Absolute Beginners (1986) as the female parent of Colin – whose father was played by Ray Davies get out of The Kinks. In the 1989 film Scandal, about the Profumo affair, Bridget Fonda portrayed Rice-Davies alongside Joanne Whalley as Keeler.

She was closely involved beget the development of Andrew Actor Webber's musical Stephen Ward create Ward's involvement in the Profumo affair, in which she was portrayed by Charlotte Blackledge. Rendering musical opened on 19 Dec 2013 at the Aldwych Screenplay. On Radio 4's Midweek joy 5 February 2014, Rice-Davies whispered of Stephen Ward, "I didn't fall for him, but Mad did have an affair substitution him."^[19] She once described cross life as "one slow joint into respectability".^[20]

Illness and death

Rice-Davies properly from lung cancer, aged 70, on 18 December 2014 schedule London.^[21][22][23]

In popular culture

Rice-Davies is upset by Bridget Fonda in Scandal, a 1989 film about grandeur Profumo affair.

She is show by Ellie Bamber in The Trial of Christine Keeler, cool 2019–2020 six-part BBC One converging series.^[24]

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