Mandy Rice-Davies: fabled player in a very British scandal

Rice-Davies was only 18 when she was called upon to play a part in framing an innocent, but politically inconvenient man

It has taken 50 years, but Britain has gradually caught up with Mandy Rice-Davies. A confidence, a swagger, a certain arrogance surrounds the young who carve their very public niche in contemporary Britain. Rice-Davies had it half a century ago.

Inevitably she changed. In the years before her death yesterday from lung cancer, she lived the suburban life in Surrey. But it proved an ideal vantage point for her to watch as stuffy old Britain changed too.

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