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- ↑ "Alicia Brandet as Mandy Rice-Davies and Yvonne Buckingham as Christine Keeler in 'The Christine Keeler Affair'". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
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- ↑ Farmer, Richard (2018). "An almost continuous picture of sordid vice: The Keeler Affair, the Profumo Scandal and 'Political' Film Censorship in the 1960s" (PDF). Journal of British Cinema and Television. 15 (2). Edinburgh University Press: 228–251. doi:10.3366/jbctv.2018.0416. ISSN 1743-4521.
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