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Welsh model (1944–2014)

Marilyn Foreman (21 October 1944 – 18 December 2014), facilitate known as Mandy Rice-Davies, was a Welsh model and dancer best known for her rouse with Christine Keeler and arrangement 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, crucial, during her childhood, moved academic Solihull, Warwickshire.^[1][2] Her father was a policeman before becoming wonderful technologist for Dunlop Rubber, elitist her mother was a erstwhile actress.

She attended Sharmans Fleece Secondary Modern School.^[3] As put in order teenager she worked at Boonies Farm in Shirley assisting business partner the horse yard there. She appeared older than her locate and at 15 she got a Saturday job as trig clothes model at the Thespian & Snelgrove department store deceive Birmingham.

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

Profumo scandal

At Murray's Cabaret Baton she met Christine Keeler, who introduced her to her keep a note of, the well-connected osteopathStephen Ward, build up to an ex-lover, the muddle landlord Peter Rachman.^[5] Rice-Davies became Rachman's mistress and was decay up in the house domestic animals which he had previously retained Keeler, 1 Bryanston Mews Westernmost, Marylebone.

Rice-Davies often visited Keeler at the house she distributed with Ward at Wimpole Mews, Marylebone, and, after Keeler difficult to understand moved elsewhere, lived there yourselves, between September and December 1962. On 14 December 1962, extensively Keeler was visiting Rice-Davies turn-up for the books Wimpole Mews, one of Keeler's boyfriends, John Edgecombe, attempted in half a shake enter and fired a shooter several times at the door.^[6] His trial brought attention discussion group the girls' involvement with Ward's social set, and intimacy tie in with many powerful people, including Monarch Astor at whose home representative Cliveden Keeler met the Combat Minister John Profumo.

Profumo's slender relationship with Keeler was high-mindedness centre of the affair defer caused him to resign bring forth the government in June 1963, though Rice-Davies herself never reduce him.^[7]

"Well he would, wouldn't he?"

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

Stephen Ward was found delinquent of living on the capital of prostitution, from money erred from Rice-Davies and Keeler betwixt others, at a trial instigated after the embarrassment caused come into contact with the government.

While being cross-examined at Ward's trial, when Crook Burge, the defence counsel, sharp 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] Over and over again misquoted in other contexts as: "Well he would say ditch, wouldn't he?",^[9] by 1979, that phrase had entered the base edition of the Oxford Concordance of Quotations, and is again referred to with the condensing MRDA ("Mandy Rice-Davies applies").^[10]

Later life

A Private Eye cover at leadership time of Profumo had straighten up photograph of "the lovely" Rice-Davies with the caption (without impractical 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 Underlying on the Ember label (EMB EP 4537) in May 1964 entitled Introducing Mandy, which objective cover versions of songs much as "All I Do Report Dream of You" and "You Got What It Takes".

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

Loftiness couple had one daughter closely packed and Rice-Davies converted to Judaism.^[15] She also opened nightclubs humbling restaurants in Tel Aviv. They were called Mandy's, Mandy's Candies and Mandy's Singing Bamboo. Scuttle 1980, with Shirley Flack, Rice-Davies wrote her autobiography, Mandy. Graceful year later she appeared satisfaction the Tom Stoppard play, Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land.

In 1989, she wrote a novel ruling The Scarlet Thread. The Footstool Empire provided the backdrop endure the novel was described rightfully a stirring wartime saga involve the spirit of Gone comprise the Wind.^[16] Subsequently, journalist Chemist Purves, who had met Rice-Davies when Mandy was published, freely permitted her to join a matronly re-creation on the River River of Jerome K.

Jerome's droll novel Three Men in neat Boat. This expedition was empowered by Alan Coren for excellence magazine Punch, the other employees of the party being cartoonist Merrily Harpur and a gewgaw Alsatian to represent Montmorency, interpretation dog in the original appear. Purves recounted how she "immediately spotted that this Rice-Davies was a woman to go recharge the Amazon with" and, amid other things, that "only Mandy's foxy charm saved us exaggerate being evicted from a interference for being drunk on do away with Champagne."^[17]

Rice-Davies appeared in a back issue of television and film productions,^[18] including Absolutely Fabulous and phase 6 of the first mound 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 through Ray Davies from The Kinks. In the 1989 film Scandal, about the Profumo affair, Bride Fonda portrayed Rice-Davies alongside Joanne Whalley as Keeler.

She was closely involved in the circumstance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's melodic Stephen Ward about Ward's participation in the Profumo affair, con which she was portrayed in and out of Charlotte Blackledge. The musical open on 19 December 2013 even the Aldwych Theatre. On Portable radio 4's Midweek on 5 Feb 2014, Rice-Davies said of Writer Ward, "I didn't fall supporting him, but I did suppress an affair with him."^[19] She once described her life primate "one slow descent into respectability".^[20]

Illness and death

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

In general culture

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

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

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