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, not only from Britain but the same areas. Even my grandchildren (all 6 of them) have 4 British grandparents but more diverse from the parts of the UK

All 4 are Scots. And all 8 Gt Grandparents. Husband has 1 Irish grandparent but refuses to apply for Irish passport. Bit annoyed that NI Brits are entitled to Irish (and therefore EU) passport when they don't even want to be Irish. Talk about having your cake and eating it!

One Dutch Grandmother (and a Dad born in The Hague) and DH’s paternal grandfather was Irish.

We’re all fabulous European mongrels in our house!

They were all born in the UK, two of them of immigrants from Europe and Ireland, but it's not close enough to make me anything but British. DH and the DC are entitled to Irish passports through MIL.

I had 2 British grandparents, 2 from Europe. The DC only have 1 British grandparent, have only been to the UK on holiday and see it as a foreign country and English as a language that they have to learn, which makes me feel a bit sad.

I have no British grandparents - parents are/were not British either.

Yep all mine were British.

there’s a bit of a question mark over my great grandads heritage though. Born to British parents on his birth cert but he certainly was Middle East appearance, there is a reason for it but never proved.
my dad, me and my youngest daughter are olive skinned.

a lot of people I know have either Irish, polish grandparents

All British here. I have an English great great grandmother and that's about as exotic as I get (I'm Scottish).

Yes - all 4 British. One Irish GGP. I al hoping one day this gives me entitlement to Irish nationality. My children however get dual nationality through DH. Not EU though.

3 British 1 French

All my grandparents are British, as are all my great grandparents.

My grandparents are no longer with us, but two were British and two were Polish

One British GP here. Everyone else Commonwealth born, though, so no EU passport for me either.

2 British 2 Polish

My grandparents and all my great-grandparents are all British.

I have one grandparent from Northern Ireland, so technically both British and Irish, but none of the rest are (1 USA, 2 EU). DH's grandparents are all British though.

DH and I both have all four English grandparents. DH’s father’s family may have come from Ireland. I have Scottish ancestors through my maternal grandfather long ago.

All 4 of my grandparents were British (Scottish), as were DH's (Scottish/Northern Irish).

3 out of 4 grandparents have sadly passed away but all were British. DH has lost all his grandparents and all 4 were British.

Yes, but one grandma born in Hong Kong to British parents. So British.
Polish great grandparents

Going back as far as my great-grandparents, everyone was Scottish. My gran spoke about her grandparents (she lived with them as her parents died young) and they were Scottish too. That being said, my last name is not British/Scottish in origin, but has been closely related to a fairly small area since the mid 1800s. So I’m guessing it goes back to then.

Two British, two not.

That's horrible. I'm so sorry you experienced that.

All four of mine were British - 2 Welsh, 1 Scottish, 1 English.

All British, mix of English, Scottish and Welsh. Have traced family tree back to 1600s and all British except some French Hugeunot refugees.

Dh is European so dc don’t have all British grandparents but nieces, nephews, cousins on my side all do.

All of mine were British though my granny spent time as a girl in India - would have been 1920s probably, imagine that! My DHs all British too, our kids are deffo not getting an EU passport. And of course all the kids grandparents voted for brexit 🙄