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She was allowed out from Stanley Camp sometime in 1942 (see https://gwulo.com/node/54511).

Henry Keswick was a British Conservative politician and businessman and member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of Hongkong. Born into the Keswick business dynasty in 1870 in Shanghai, Henry was the first born son of William Keswick by his first wife, Amelie Sophie Dubeux (d. 1883). He was educated at Eton College and in 1892 graduated with a B.A. at Trinity College, Cambridge, at which college he later took his M.A. degree.

Entry in the list of internees:

Mr. Jan Con-Sang is my paternal great-grandfather.

Key points from his biography on Wikipedia:

Anna d'Almeida née Hait was the chuild of White Russian parents. At some point before 1925 they moved to Shanghai and in that year Anna sailed to Seattle, apparently intending to live permanently in the USA. She applied for American citizenship in 1926 after what seems to have been a statutory one year's residence, but in 1928 she was back in Shanghai, where she married Carlos Eugenio d'Almeida at the Portuguese Consulate.

She was the Maid of Honour at the Edgar wedding (https://gwulo.com/atom/14720) and is standing third from the left in the front row.