Marriage and Children
Attlee met Violet Millar on a trip to Italy in 1921. They were engaged a few weeks after their return, and were later married at Christ Church, Hampstead on 10 January 1922. It would come to be a devoted marriage, until her death in 1964. They had four children:
- (Lady) Janet Helen (b. 1923); she married Harold Shipton at Ellesborough Parish church in 1947 and later settled in the United States.
- (Lady) Felicity Ann (1925–2007), married John Harwood at Little Hampden in 1955
- Martin Richard (1927–91) and
- (Lady) Alison Elizabeth (b. 1930), married Richard Davis at Great Missenden in 1952.
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