David Profumo was just seven when his father who had been Secretary of State for War resigned from the Macmillan government. Despite the furore & humiliation that followed his parents famously stayed together
- & now forty years on their son has written this long-awaited account of their family life before during & after the sensational events of 1963. Drawing on diaries letters & other memorabilia never before made public Bringing The House Down describes their background & careers before they met. After an apprenticeship in Hollywood during her teenage years the beautiful Valerie Hobson went on to star in numerous British films before her stage triumph in The King & I; John Profumo had been the youngest MP during the Second World War became a Brigadier at the age of thirty & was rapidly rising through the ranks of the Conservative party. This is the story of their complicated courtship & volatile marriage the destruction of their glamorous lifestyle & their endurance of the aftermath. By turns intimate caustic & poignant their only childs personal memoir of their three lives together not only puts flesh on the bones of the old family skeleton but also offers a remarkable portrait of a love affair that somehow survived in a world turned upside down.