But, although he seems to have become immediately besotted by her, Valerie was reluctant to leave her husband straight away.
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John Profumo pictured dancing with his wife Valerie Hobson during the Conservative Party annual conference in Scarborough in October 1960 As the sex and espionage scandal which ensued threatened to topple the Conservative government of the day, the Profumos came out of hiding in the countryside and returned to London.
But the truth is her private life was almost as colourful as his.
Valerie, in a letter to her husband on their 15th wedding anniversary in 1969, gushed: 'Never once since I met you have I been bored; never once have I not wanted you.
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