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London, UNITED KINGDOM: Pall bearers place a coffin bearing the body of ex-British Cabinet Minister John Profumo into a hearse outside St. Paul's Church in Knightsbridge, in London, 20 March 2006. John Profumo, the British war minister caught in a sex and spy tangle at the height of the Cold War died aged 91, reviving old memories of a scandal that shook the establishment to the core and helped bring down the government. The scandal had all the players and ingredients of a period drama, with a ravishing young call girl, a dapper cabinet minister, a Russian agent, tales of orgies, and even gunshots fired into the night by a jealous lover. His downfall began in July 1961, when as a 48-year-old secretary of state for war in Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government, Profumo fell for Christine Keeler, a 19-year-old prostitute. AFP PHOTO/BEN STANSALL Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty