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Marilyn Foreman (21 October 1944 – 18 December 2014), better known as Mandy Rice-Davies, was a Welsh model and showgirl best known for her association with Christine Keeler and her role in the Profumo affair, which discredited the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963.

Early lifeEdit

Rice-Davies was born near Llanelli, Wales, and, during her childhood, moved to Solihull, Warwickshire.<ref name="nOZI9">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="8FKji">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her father was a policeman before becoming a technologist for Dunlop Rubber, and her mother was a former actress. She attended Sharmans Cross Secondary Modern School.<ref name="Birmingham Mail 2013">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> As a teenager she worked at Woods Farm in Shirley assisting with the horse yard there. She appeared older than her age and at 15 she got a Saturday job as a clothes model at the Marshall & Snelgrove department store in Birmingham. At 16 she went to London as Miss Austin at the Earls Court Motor Show.<ref name="Ap4uX">Shirley Green (1979) Rachman. London, Michael Joseph: 157</ref>

Profumo scandalEdit

At Murray's Cabaret Club she met Christine Keeler, who introduced her to her friend, the well-connected osteopath Stephen Ward, and to an ex-lover, the slum landlord Peter Rachman.<ref name="JX1NI">Shirley Green (1979) Rachman. London, Michael Joseph: 159</ref> Rice-Davies became Rachman's mistress and was set up in the house in which he had previously kept Keeler, 1 Bryanston Mews West, Marylebone. Rice-Davies often visited Keeler at the house she shared with Ward at Wimpole Mews, Marylebone, and, after Keeler had moved elsewhere, lived there herself, between September and December 1962. On 14 December 1962, while Keeler was visiting Rice-Davies at Wimpole Mews, one of Keeler's boyfriends, John Edgecombe, attempted to enter and fired a gun several times at the door.<ref name="8E2WB">Ludovic Kennedy (1964) The Trial of Stephen Ward: 10</ref> His trial brought attention to the girls' involvement with Ward's social set, and intimacy with many powerful people, including Viscount Astor at whose home of Cliveden Keeler met the War Minister John Profumo. Profumo's brief relationship with Keeler was the centre of the affair that caused him to resign from the government in June 1963, though Rice-Davies herself never met him.<ref name="sfHhN">David Profumo (2006) Bringing the House Down</ref>

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"Well he would, wouldn't he?"Edit

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Stephen Ward was found guilty of living on the earnings of prostitution, from money obtained from Rice-Davies and Keeler among others, at a trial instigated after the embarrassment caused to the government.

While being cross-examined at Ward's trial, when James Burge, the defence counsel, pointed out that Lord Astor denied an affair or even having met her, she dispatched this swiftly with pert humour, "Well he would, wouldn't he?"<ref name="9ehFV">Template:Citation</ref> Often misquoted in other contexts as: "Well he would say that, wouldn't he?",<ref name="w31vX"> which became a popular phrase among politicians in Britain, used to indicate scepticism of a claim due to the obvious bias of the person making the claim. Examples of this phrase:

Later lifeEdit

A Private Eye cover at the time of Profumo had a photograph of "the lovely" Rice-Davies with the caption (without any headline or other identification), "Do you mind? If it wasn't for me – you couldn't have cared less about Rachman".<ref name="9wAta">Private Eye, 26 July 1963; The Life and Times of Private Eye (ed. Richard Ingrams, 1971), page 85.</ref> Rice-Davies released a 45 EP on the Ember label (EMB EP 4537) in May 1964 entitled Introducing Mandy, which included cover versions of songs such as "All I Do Is Dream of You" and "You Got What It Takes".

Rice-Davies traded on the notoriety the trial brought her, comparing herself to Nelson's mistress, Lady Hamilton.<ref name="FgmGp">The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations (J. M. & M. J. Cohen, 1971) 190:69</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1965 she was an associate of pre-fame David Bowie, attending his rehearsals and live performances.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In 1966 she married an Israeli businessman, Rafi Shauli and moved to Israel. The couple had one daughter together and Rice-Davies converted to Judaism.<ref name="Sunday Times 2008">Template:Cite news</ref> She also opened nightclubs and restaurants in Tel Aviv. They were called Mandy's, Mandy's Candies and Mandy's Singing Bamboo. In 1980, with Shirley Flack, Rice-Davies wrote her autobiography, Mandy.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> A year later she appeared in the Tom Stoppard play, Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land. In 1989, she wrote a novel entitled The Scarlet Thread. The Ottoman Empire provided the backdrop and the novel was described as a stirring wartime saga in the spirit of Gone with the Wind.<ref name="NEWtn">Allan, Jani. Template:Usurped Sunday Times (South Africa). 10 September 1989</ref> Subsequently, journalist Libby Purves, who had met Rice-Davies when Mandy was published, invited her to join a female re-creation on the River Thames of Jerome K. Jerome's comic novel Three Men in a Boat. This expedition was commissioned by Alan Coren for the magazine Punch, the other members of the party being cartoonist Merrily Harpur and a toy Alsatian to represent Montmorency, the dog in the original story. Purves recounted how she "immediately spotted that this Rice-Davies was a woman to go up the Amazon with" and, among other things, that "only Mandy's foxy charm saved us from being evicted from a lock for being drunk on pink Champagne."<ref name="HJ3il">Libby Purves in Country Life, 17 November 2010</ref>

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She was closely involved in the development of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Stephen Ward about Ward's involvement in the Profumo affair, in which she was portrayed by Charlotte Blackledge. The musical opened on 19 December 2013 at the Aldwych Theatre. On Radio 4's Midweek on 5 February 2014, Rice-Davies said of Stephen Ward, "I didn't fall for him, but I did have an affair with him."<ref name="cgsWA">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She once described her life as "one slow descent into respectability".<ref name="caLeW">Template:Cite news</ref>

Illness and deathEdit

Rice-Davies died from lung cancer, aged 70, on 18 December 2014 in London.<ref name="WhZTq">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="hsEqt">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="nmXcj">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In popular cultureEdit

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

She is portrayed by Ellie Bamber in The Trial of Christine Keeler, a 2019–2020 six-part BBC One television series.<ref name="0reFA">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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