Violet Attlee, Countess Attlee
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Violet Helen Attlee, Countess Attlee (née Millar) (20 November 1895 7 June 1964) was the wife of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Helen Millar was born in Hampstead as the tenth child and youngest daughter of Henry Edward Millar, a prosperous businessman. Her early education took place in Hampstead before she went to Saint Felix, a boarding school in Southwold. She worked as a VAD throughout World War I, meeting her future husband shortly afterward. In the summer of 1921, she went with her mother to Italy; joining them on the trip were her brother Cedric and a former Oxford friend,…mehr

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Violet Helen Attlee, Countess Attlee (née Millar) (20 November 1895 7 June 1964) was the wife of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Helen Millar was born in Hampstead as the tenth child and youngest daughter of Henry Edward Millar, a prosperous businessman. Her early education took place in Hampstead before she went to Saint Felix, a boarding school in Southwold. She worked as a VAD throughout World War I, meeting her future husband shortly afterward. In the summer of 1921, she went with her mother to Italy; joining them on the trip were her brother Cedric and a former Oxford friend, Clement Attlee. Within a few weeks of their return they became engaged and were married at Christ Church, Hampstead on 10 January 1922. Theirs would be a devoted marriage. Their four children were Lady Janet Helen (b. 1923), Lady Felicity Ann (1925-2007), Martin Richard (1925-1991) and Lady Alison Elizabeth (b. 1930).