Roger Hollis in 1956 and remaining in that post until his retirement in 1965. After Kim Philby's flight from Beirut to Moscow in 1963, rumours began to circulate that Hollis had alerted him to his impending arrest. Hollis was criticised for not alerting John Profumo, the War Secretary in Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, that he might have become entangled with a Soviet spy ring through his friendship with Stephen Ward, and his affair with showgirl Christine Keeler, who was introduced by Ward to Profumo. Soviet Naval Attache Eugene Ivanov was also involved with Keeler at this time, in the early
David Profumo 1978 and at Shrewsbury School from 1978 to 1979. He then became part-time lecturer of English at King's College London, from 1981 to 1983 and Deputy Editor of "Fiction" Magazine from 1982 to 1984. He was a columnist for the "Daily Telegraph" from 1987 to 1995. Profumo was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1995. Profumo married BBC Television producer Helen Fraser, daughter of Alasdair Fraser, on 22 March 1979 at St Marylebone Parish Church, Marylebone, London. His son and heir is Alexander James Profumo. Profumo's 2006 family memoir, "Bringing the House Down", covered the scandal