To ask if you have 4 British Grandparents?

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In conversation with friends last night about the perks of still having an EU passport I discovered I was the only one with all 4 Grandparents being British.

DH also has 1 non British Grandparent and now when I really think about it so do a lot of my other friends. I would say the majority have an Irish Grandparent but also Spanish, Indian, Chinese, Polish, Maltese and Italian amongst my close friends.

I recall reading somewhere that 25% of British people could get an Irish passport so I guess I’m now wondering if having all 4 British Grandparents are not being entitled to any other nationality is actually quite uncommon?

No, but as neither of my parents are British (even though I technically am by country of birth) that’s not a huge surprise.

1 Cuban, 1 Jamaican and 2 Irish parents.

I have an Irish and British passport. My kids also have both passports as Ex-DH is Irish.

Zero British grandparents

I did, they have all passed now

All British for me to at least Great Grandparents, some of the family have done the ancestry DNA test which three up some African genes which was quite exciting, I like to imagine there was some scandalous affair 150 years ago 😀

They're all dead but yes, all English.

I traced my family tree on Ancestry back hundreds of years and it remained an all English line. My DNA hinted at Scottish, Irish, Scandinavian and Finnish ancestry though.

All of my grandparents were British. I am 51. If you go back another couple of generations I have one Irish great great grandfather.

All British here.

Would have to go back to great great grandparents to see any diversity.

Quite boring really! I wish I was still in some way entitled to an EU passport but no.

Yeah. I'm native to Britain going back ten thousand years, according to my dna report!

Big surprise!

No. 2 English and 2 Irish

Not sure why people care where random people’s grandparents are from? Hiding thread.

Does having dual citizenship mean you get taxed twice on income? I could potenitally claim German citizenship but wouldn't want to be taxed twice.

Are you sure you're asking the exact question? It's the case that a person with Indian or African or Caribbean heritage can also claim to have 4 British grandparents. I see some have used the word 'native' to Britain but is that more specifically the question, because aforementioned Afro-caribbeans can equally be Scottish, Welsh, Irish...

All British here. In fact, all Yorkshire. In fact, everyone is from Yorkshire going right back to my Great Great Great Grandparents - with one exception, a GGG Grandmother who was Scottish.

Not necessarily, it depends on the country. I'm a dual UK-EU citizen and live in a 3rd country, and only pay income tax in the country where I live, not the countries that I am a citizen of.

But I believe US citizens (including dual citizens) have to do a US tax return regardless of where they live. However, many countries (including presumably the US) will have various double taxation agreements so that people are not taxed twice.

They’re dead but all four of mine were English. And all Londoners.

I had an ancestry DNA test done recently and was actually surprised to see that I apparently have entirely Northern European ancestry. Given the areas of London my grandparents came from, which have been melting-pots for centuries, I’d have assumed it would be a lot more mixed than that, but apparently not.

@Grapefruitsquash I’m so sorry that this happened to you.

One Irish grandparent, but he was a Traveller and I can't find any documented history.

Yes, all gone now, but all four were British.

My dad's ancestry is Danish though

My kids did, I did, my mum and dad did, my ils did, but my grandma didn’t -all German emigres. But on dads and ils side english (and dirt poor) as far as we can go.

Me too - English actually on both sides as far back as I can trace.

No. They were Czech, Austrian and German.

I think a lot are solely British

Two were Irish, two were English but lived in India, I never met the one who stayed there after they got divorced.

Near to retirement here and I have Spanish grandparents.

All four of mine were British, same for husband. As far back as my grandad could trace everyone was British born. (No we didn’t vote leave!)

All 4 were English. One farm workers family and a non-commissioned military family in a villages about 50 miles apart.