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?

4 British grandparents. My paternal grandmother had an Irish grandma though and could have had an Irish passport. Just a bit too far removed for my dad/ any of us to qualify though.

Not just all British but going back 5 generations my family were all born in the same city, we all stay close to home apparently.

@PrtScn the Good Friday Agreement.

I have 4 British grandparents - but I also have an EU passport as well

In fact my brother is miffed that he is the only one from our immediate family - of me, DH, DD1,DD2, SIL, DN1, DN2 - who does NOT qualify for an EU passport!

My sister did some digging in our family tree and we're Scottish all the way back as far as she's gone, except for the families that emigrated (including us)

I don't consider myself Scottish most of the time though because I wasn't born there and never lived there. I have 2 passports

Late 40s

2 British GPs
2 Indian GPs

All have been dead a very long time.

No. One was Irish.

All British but do have great a great grandmother that was Swedish.

4 British grandparents, same for my DH.

All dead now, but I had three British grandparents and one from a European country (came to the UK when she was a small child in the early 1900s).

All British here.

Four British grandparents here. No non-British ancestry whatsoever as far as I’ve managed to trace back and no entitlements to any other passports, sadly. Our family is really very dull.

Only 2 British here. My DH (and my ex-DH) all their grandparents were British.

That is absolutely disgusting. I'm so sorry that happened to you.

What did you do/say?

4 British as in they all had British passports, but 2 born in Eastern Europe

All British but one born in Venezuela (his Dad was British consulate) and 2 raised in the US.
All N Irish, including me, so I can have an Irish passport anyway, so could DS, but he is proudly English and not interested atm. May change when he's older.
Not all EU passports work like this due to the complex/controversial history between Britain and Ireland, there are different rules

I didn't say anything. I wish I had but I felt intimidated. I did get off at the next stop and took my necklace off.

All British here. DH is in the process of applying for an Italian passport for him & DD through great grandpa Joe after his brother successfully paved the way earlier this year.

I'm a Londoner. All my grandparents were Irish. My dad was born in Ireland, my mum was born in London. Having dual citizenship is great post Brexit (not that I've made much use of it but my Irish passport is there).

Well at least the OP would pass the Patel test.

How about 16 British great grandparents for the Braverman test ?

I have one British grandparent, though she was temporarily German during the war because she married my grandfather, a Jewish refugee. Bizarre that she was forcibly redesignated as German while my grandfather was forcibly excluded from German citizenship. Anyway, she was a kraut lover to her neighbours and felt unable to use the public air raid shelters (that lovely Blitz spirit!)

All have passed away now but yes, all of my grandparents were British (English) with no other nationalities in my family tree at all.

I have no British grandparents, am eligible for a Portuguese passport through all of them, but not sure if I can be bothered with the hassle, as my children have 4 British grandparents and I think its more important they have one than me. DH also has an Irish passport despite having 4 British grandparents (2 of his grandparents were from Northern Ireland) so I can travel freely on his passport.

Having Irish ancestors doesn’t count in the same way as other nationalities in this context as Ireland was so recently a part of the UK. I read somewhere that there are more people entitled to an Irish passport than there are people actually living in the whole of Ireland.

BTW I have four English grandparents and eight English great grandparents as far as I am aware.