The following teaser is from an article published March 9, 2014 at the gulfnews.com website.
Shimla [Himachal Pradesh, India]: Clement Attlee’s grandson John was born in Shimla nearly nine decades ago. His great-granddaughter has just fished out her father’s birth certificate from the cavernous civic office of the “queen of the hills”.
Sally Camps, great-granddaughter of Clement Attlee, who served as Britain’s prime minister from 1945 to 1951, screamed excitedly as she traced her roots in this hill station. It was during Attlee’s tenure that India got its independence in 1947.
Simla, as it was then called, served as the summer capital of British India between 1864 and 1939.
Camps along with her husband Michael Camps was in this Himachal Pradesh capital last week to locate the birth records of her father John Keith Harwood, who was born here in 1926.
Hello Sally Camps, if you do read this comment, we would like to get in touch with you.
We are from Bangalore India and Sir Atlee was known to our family. Sir Atlee and my dad’s relationship has been published in An Indian Summer by James Cameroon. (pg 46 and pg 47) My dad was the late Philip Asirvatham.
We have photographs with Sir Atlee and till this date hangs on our walls as a memory we cherish.
As you are in India, it would be our pleasure to meet you and your family.
We look forward to hearing from you via email.
Kind Regards
John Asirvatham