In one famous illustration, published at the time of the 1963 Profumo affair, he imagined a naked Harold MacMillan sitting on a chair in a pose made famous by the model Christine Keeler.

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In short, like other personae in the Murdochian drama, she scarcely exists outside the appetites of the tabloid press and there, you might expect, she would remain, as safe a standby as Christine Keeler was.

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One of the last people to inveigh, with any effect, against that heresy was Cardinal Heenan, the Archbishop of Westminster, who took Murdoch to task, in 1969, for having bought and splashed, or resplashed, the memoirs of Christine Keeler in the News of the World.

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