Biography jeremy thorpe

• Hugh Grant stars in a new Amazon miniseries about Jeremy Thorpe, a British Liberal Party politician accused of murdering his lover Norman Scott.
• The show has been nominated for three Golden Globes.
  
• Thorpe, a married father of one, went to great lengths to hide his many relationships with men for fear that it would ruin his political career.
  
• In , he was arrested on charges that he conspired to have Scott shot by a bumbling hitman named Andrew Newton.

If you're anything like me, then your first thought upon hearing that Hugh Grant was starring in 70s-era miniseries called A Very English Scandal was "oh, that must be about the Profumo Affair.

I hope I can remember what that is."

Good news: Any fogginess on the details of the Profumo Affair won't hold you back here. But chances are if you're American you aren't familiar with the details of this particular British scandal either.