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?

Same, lots of Irish background, but not close enough to qualify for a green card.

I’m Irish, but my grandparents were born so long ago that they were British!

my kids heads were blown when they found out my grandfather remembered the death of Wueen Victoria! (He was 8 in 1901)

All my grandparents are, but my maternal grandfather's parents emigrated to Wales from Ireland. If only they'd waited for him to be born first...

I recall reading somewhere that 25% of British people could get an Irish passport

The whole of NI could be considered British and get an Irish passport, so that percentage isn't surprising. 'British' covers the whole UK not just GB

I’ve not found any non-Brits in my family tree! We barely moved within a 50-mile radius for 250+ years.

All my grandparents and great grandparents are British.

I’m 58.
I had two British grandparents.
mybkids who are in their late 20s have four British grandparents.

White British that is.

2 of mine are English and 2 Welsh so yes all British.

My mum's parents divorced and both remarried, so while I consider myself to have an Irish grandparent, he was my mum's step dad so wouldn't entitle me to a passport, the rest all resolutely English or Scottish

Yes, have a German great grandfather but that's too far removed for a passport plus he fled Germany pre First World War undocumented

3 British, 1 Commonwealth country.

None of my grandparents were British.

All my grandparents, great grandparents and great great grandparents were British. A generation further back than that and one is Irish (although that far back Ireland was not a separate country). I have very deep roots in the Scottish Borders going back centuries and definitely wouldn't qualify for any other passport.

Yes
Although I wasn't born in the UK, all my grandparents were (and my parents were) - and I'm not entitled to another passport or citizenship

I had 1 British grandparent, 1 from New Zealand and 2 Australian.

So not a lot of use for an EU passport, although all my DC have dual British/Australian nationality, and I could have this too, after I jump through the hoops and pay the exorbitant fee!

Four British grandparents, but I had a great grandfather who was Irish. If my Mum had got an Irish passport, would I have been entitled to one? (She isn't with us any more so it's a bit of a moot point)

All of my grandparents are/were British. If you go far back enough there is some Irish and German ancestry but it’s very far back! My grandparents were all British and 3 out of the 4 were born in city we mostly still live in.

I’m the same, one set of great grandparents were Irish by birth then Immigrated to Scotland, but that’s generation too far back for a passport

I have yet to find anyone from anywhere else in my family tree more recently than the Normans.

Me too and me too 😂

3 British, 1 Spanish. One of the British ones had Irish parents. I'm 34.

My Dad (born in London) had no British grandparents, my Mum had all British grandparents.

Dh does have 4 british grandparents, i only have 2, so DC have 3 british gp.
I remember back in the 70s this question was asked in my class in a north London comp and only about 4 in the class could say they had all 4 gp born in the uk.
In the area we did have high italian and irish populations which probably account for it although there were a mix of others like me who was half Cypriot

That is truly shocking.

All four grandparents, all eight great-grandparents and in fact every documented person on family trees on both sides that reach well back into the 18th century and much further for certain branches.
One great great grandparent was born in a different county to the rest of the family on that side and it's as exotic as it gets. I suspect we would need to get back to Saxon invasion on the southern side and Viking on the northern side to find anyone not British born.
From my generation onwards it's mixed, I have three set of cousins with a none British parent (1 Irish, 1 southern European and 1 Carribbean) and my cousins have children born in at least 8 different countries.