To ask if you have 4 British Grandparents?

[ThornInMySide84]

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?

All British here!

All British but all dead.

None of mine were British when they died. Two had been but got citizenship where they spent their adult lives.

Not even just all British, all four were English and just English all the way back as best as I can tell. Very boring, no passports for me.

1 set of grandparents were Scottish, one set Irish. I don't have an Irish passport.

So far as I know, I have to go back five generations to find someone who's not British. It's a bummer.

I have no British grandparents. Or parents for that matter. But then I also have two passports, and my British citizenship is acquired (long pre-Brexit though)

Mine were all 4 british. All great grandparents british too, in fact all from the same relatively small geographic area.

But DH had one polish grandparent and my bil did too.

Take it your BIL is your sisters husband, otherwise if it was your DH's brother, they woukd have the same Polish grandparent!

DH had 4 British. I had 3 British, 1 Irish.

Two English, two Irish. Sounds like the start of a shit joke.

No British grandparents though technically all were were British subjects at time of birth (Ireland 1895,
Ireland 1905, Ireland 1915, Jamaica 1922)

Yes me. My grandparents were all from the same Town in which I still reside so I consider myself English through and through. No Irish passport for me - but I consider this trend towards multiple passports to be a little low class... if you're a good person and save well for your holidays and visas it shouldn't be an issue

Which one exactly is the question? A lot of people would perceive racist undertones if you ask them if all four of their grandparents were British.

There are other considerations. My four grandparents are (only) British (Scot), British (Scot), Australian, Australian. And yet I hold an EU passport (since there are other routes to citizenship). And, plot twist. Despite the parent (me) being a British citizen from birth, my two eldest children do NOT have it, as I and also they were born in Australia and you can't inherit like that if your British parent wasn't born in Britain. Every EU country also has its own rules on who is & isn't eligible, usually on similar reasoning, but also because some don't recognise dual citizenships if you gain them after birth. Yes, really, in 2023.

My baby due in 3 weeks will be born with three citizenships, all three of them coming from me, and 0 citizenships AT ALL from their biological father.

All mine are/were British.

My children's are from Ireland and the Channel Islands so they can apply for an Irish passport to get back the rights Brexit took away from us all.

This has got my wondering about the Royal Family. Are all Charles' grandparents British? Are William's?

What has class and being a good person got to do with which passports you hold? It’s based on where you/ your parents were born. I have a Belgium passport, DH, a Canadian. DC’s have both. In post Brexit days having an EU passport is huge and nothing to do with holidays.

My maternal grandfather was Irish and I could claim an Irish passport, I am in my 50s so I have no use for it, unfortunately too late to claim for ds.

Drives me nuts my brexit voting brother applied for one 🤬

My other 3 grandparents were British but going back another generation we have Lithuanian in there too.

I had three technically British grandparents, born in Ireland before independence.

"This has got my wondering about the Royal Family. Are all Charles' grandparents British? Are William's?"

Well, Charles' weren't.

I could have had dual nationality if I had got my act together when I was young, but I missed the window. Such an idiot!

@LadyCuntington "Yes me. My grandparents were all from the same Town in which I still reside so I consider myself English through and through. No Irish passport for me - but I consider this trend towards multiple passports to be a little low class... if you're a good person and save well for your holidays and visas it shouldn't be an issue"

Some usernames are kind of prescient.

Under the terms of the Good Fruday Agreement, people born in NI can get a British or Irish passport, or both, without compromising their British citizenship.

All my grandparents were Irish but I was born in England and now live in America, so 3 passports for me and my offspring! We can live all over the place!

Deceased grandparents, but yes, British. Back as far as we can trace to 1700 odd - which disappointed my DM because she thought she had Irish heritage.

@UndercoverCop
Did he formally adopt your mum?

It might make a difference.