Bridget Dowling born on July 3, 1891 in Dublin. She grew up at Flemings Place, near Mespil Road. She was still in her teens when she met Adolf Hitler’s half brother Alois Hitler, Jr. at the Dublin Horse Show in the RDS in 1909.
Alois had pretended to be a wealthy hotelier who was touring Europe, but in fact he was a kitchen porter working in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, which he later admitted to. He had left Austria for, Dublin, Ireland, in 1896, aged 14, because of the increasingly violent arguments with his father and the strained relationship with his stepmother Klara.Adolf’s mother.
Bridget fell for Alois’s charms and after a number of months courting in Dublin,the couple eloped to London in 1910 . mainly due to her family’s disapproval of her relationship with Alois, , They married on 3 June 1910 and later settled in Toxteth, Liverpool…
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