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?

Yes - all long dead but in fact like a PP I can trace our family back over many many generations and they are (were) all not just British but English.

No but the only non British one left when my dad was a baby and we're not even sure we have his name right (grandmother is long gone, didn't have a close relationship with my dad or his siblings or would talk about it).

I don’t have any. DH has 4.

Yes I do, although some GGP were immigrants.
DH also had 4 British GP.

I'm from NI, so all 4 of my GPs were both British and Irish. As am I.

I do, all 4 English or Welsh, but DH has an Irish grandfather.

I do. But my DCs don't.

4 British grandparents but two British great-grandparents and one Russian and one Polish.
Sympathy to Grapefruitsquash. We used to think we were safe in this country, now not so much.

4 British grandparents but two British great-grandparents and one Russian and one Polish. Grandson loves the idea of having such a mix in his ancestry.

Sympathy to Grapefruitsquash. We used to think we were safe in this country, now not so much. Stand up and be proud.

Same. One grandmother is Welsh, grandfather Scottish. Other two are English.

That's what I have too. They were back and forth frequently for work as well, so it could easily have been that he would have been born in Ireland.

yes, all 4. two born oversees, one in Kenya and one in Singapore.

All four of mine were British.

Three were northern and one was southern, which is exotic as I get.

Not anymore, 😢 but I did...

Mine were all British, annoyingly.

My DSis will able to get an Italian passport (eventually) due to her marriage to someone with ONE Italian GP.
My cousin will be able to get an Irish one, as will her sons.

Brexit sucks. I reserve special anger and scorn for those who say "You lost, get over it".

Zero British grandparents.

Mine are all British, in fact all Scottish with the exception of one Great Grandmother from Yorkshire.

My grandad was Irish so I could get an Irish passport, no point though as my dh and children could not🙄

3 British, 1 not.
Both my GMs were Scottish.

I'm the only one of my 4 siblings who is stuck here. DB1 was born in the country our non-British GP was from, and has a passport. DB2 lived in Aus for many years and has citizenship. DSis is married to a European national and they live there. She has the equivalent of settled status.

I'm here, in the windy, rainy mad UK. Irish surname (at birth) but no recent enough ancestry to count.

Yes and 8 British Gt grandparents too, if that helps.

All four gone now but yes they were all British. Not that I would have changed them because I adored them but I would have loved one of them to have been something that enabled me to get an EU passport!

Technically DH would be able to get a German passport if he spoke the language well enough but sadly he doesn't 😔

All my grandparents were British but at least one (possibly two) of my great grandparents were Irish.

Yup all British for me (1 Scottish, 3 English) and all British for DH.

So DC who are primary aged had all 4 grandparents British too.

Boring.

4 British grandparents (and great grandparents all British)

But I married a European, so I could get citizenship of his country if we need to, and my oldest has already got his European passport, so now he is dual nationality.