Editing Winifred Wagner (section)

===Early life and marriage to Siegfried Wagner===
Wagner was born Winifred Marjorie Williams in [[Hastings]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Wistrich |first=Robert S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7qlvzyEieyQC&dq=Winifred+Wagner&pg=PA270 |title=Who's Who in Nazi Germany |date=2013-07-04 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-41388-9 |pages=270–271 |language=en}}</ref> to John Williams, a Welsh journalist and critic, and his English-Danish wife, Emily Florence Williams, née Karop. Orphaned before the age of two, she initially was raised in a number of homes. Eight years later, she was adopted by a distant German relative of her mother, Henrietta Karop, and her husband [[Karl Klindworth]], a musician and a friend of [[Richard Wagner]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/6720343.how-adolf-hitler-fell-in-love-with-sussex-orphan/ |title=How Adolf Hitler fell in love with Sussex orphan |newspaper=[[The Argus (Brighton)|The Argus]] |date=4 February 2004 |access-date=10 December 2018}}</ref>
[[File:Siegfried Wagner & Family - Dec 1922 Shadowland.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|Siegfried Wagner and his family in 1922]]
The [[Bayreuth Festival]] was seen as a family business, with the leadership to be passed from Richard Wagner to his son [[Siegfried Wagner|Siegfried]], but Siegfried, who was secretly [[bisexual]], showed little interest in marriage. It was arranged that Winifred Klindworth, as she was called at the time, aged 17, would meet Siegfried Wagner, aged 45, at the Bayreuth Festival in 1914. A year later, they were married.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last1=Kinderman |first1=William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qhBBRn3i9zsC&dq=Winifred+Wagner&pg=PA300 |title=A Companion to Wagner's Parsifal |last2=Syer |first2=Katherine Rae |date=2005 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |isbn=978-1-57113-237-6 |pages=300 |language=en}}</ref> It was hoped that the marriage would end Siegfried's [[homosexual]] encounters and the associated costly scandals and provide an heir to carry on the family business. Following their marriage on 22 September 1915, they had four children in rapid succession.<ref name=":1" /> After the death of [[Siegfried Wagner]] in 1930, Winifred Wagner took over the Bayreuth Festival, running it until the end of World War II.