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?

2 british, 2 irish.

@mathanxiety no her biological dad my grandpa was very much in her life, she lived with him and her step mum and my mum was late teens early twenties before my gran remarried so whilst step dad/grandfather was a very present member of the family, and for me all of them have equal standing as grandparents, I grew up with them all, there would've been no need. I have an Irish great grandparent (deceased) but I don't think that's enough

All my grandparents were British although one grandfather's parents were both of Irish decent so ancestry DNA is showing up a large percentage of Irish. The test also picked up Mali and Senegal ancestry although I am still working out where that came in.

Mine were all British. But I can imagine if people looked at me an assumption would be that they weren't. I'm brown and people ask me all the time where I'm from despite being born and raised here.

No British grandparents for either of us. I technically have a british great great grandfather.

My husband has two South African grand parents, one Swedish and one Icelandic.

None of mine are British - they're Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian and American. I have dual Polish and British citizenship.

I had 4 British grandparents. Technically my grandmother was Irish but as she was adopted there’s no possibility of an Irish passport. My cousins from her biological brothers all have Irish passports.

All 4 English, 2 of my dcs have an Irish parent though they don't have Irish passports yet

All four British. My Mum did quite a lot of family research and we're British all the way. Even traced one family line back to the Cromwell era. Turns out I have an ancestor who was relatively famous at the time.
I remember doing family trees at school and being told I was "boring" for not having any non British ancestry. That stung.

My ancestry (done DNA) goes back hundreds of years in the same three areas of the UK.

Yes, but 2 are dual national British and something else. As am I, by birth not heritage.
most of my friends have a parent or grandparent that’s not British though - or they themselves are not British born.
Pakistani, Indian, Oz, US , Canadian. Armenian, Syrian, EastenEuropean, Western European, African, Israeli, pretty much everywhere you can think of.
We live in the SE.

Our kids have 3 passports and 4 nationalities they can claim.

All 4 grandparents British and all 8 great grandparents are British as well. I dont know further back than that.

Most of our friends who can claim a European passport but didn’t have one before have for themselves or their kids.
Mostly for their kids - to give them freedom of movement when they’re older for study, work or just travel.

Brexit really was a shitshow- I remember thinking WHY would they want to take all these opportunities away from their children and grandchildren?? Haven’t they realised?

Clearly from the reaction of many now, they had not. I already had my U.K. and European passports so it wasn’t going to change that much for me or my kids…

Two British, One Russian & one Austrian

My eldest has been looking into anIrish passport. It seems to take a really long while these days because of the massive post-Brexit queue.

Philip's parents couldn't have been could they?

2 British, 2 French although the 2 French were 1st gen immigrants so born here and as Yorkshire as they come… They were both bilingual though so my Dad and Uncle subsequently are.

No british grandparents or great grandparents

my mum is northern Irish by birth (but neither of her parents were northern Irish - just there when she was born - they were German)

my dad was born in Italy to Italian father and Spanish mother

I was a born and raised in Scotland, married a Welshman and we now live in England - our kids love all the different cultures that they are exposed to and the various traditions each side of the family brings

Yes, not sure you could use this 😊

I imagine lots are more British that the King!

All four of my grandparents are British but my family name came over with the Normans in 1066 so what am I?

Two Brits, one Irish and one Polish.

Quite common in the area of the country I'm from (ex-mining).

Yes, 4 British grandparents, although my grandmother was born in South Africa to a British mother and Australian father and had to be naturalised as a British citizen.