The Reading Aero Club of the mid-1930s was a magnet for fashionable and wealthy young men and women, and it was into this hothouse of riches and glamour that a brother and sister from Devon, Luis and Ruth Fontes, were thrust in the summer of 1934. The pair were the illegitimate offspring of a well-to-do Brazilian businessman, Antonio Goncalves Fontes, who had numerous children with a variety of mistresses over the years. Ruth was born in London on 10 March 1911 and her younger brother Luis on 26 December 1912. Although their father was Brazilian their mother, Marie Fairer, was British and the children were both British citizens.
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