Can my DDs, born in Spain to me a British citizen, get British passports. They already have Spanish ones.

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Am freaking out at the British embassy in Madrid website as it looks like things are far more complicated than they were a few years back when i first idly thought of getting DD1 a Brit passport.
The info on the site seems to suggest they would have to give up Spanish nationality. Can't they have both?
(Have also posted this in 'chat')

My children have British, American and Italian citizenship. I am Italian and American and my dh is British. (Kids were born in uk). However, I have only bothered to get the us and uk passports as italian one is redundant. BUT the Italians do require that you register the births of the children with the local consulate where you are living (please note 2sugars) and if you haven't yet told your local italian consulate that you are living there they will give you a really hard time and make your life miserable when you show up to register your chidlren (but it doesn't ultimately seem to cost anymore or change the end result). You must also register any marriages with Italian consulate as well. And divorces (which are a royal pain and very expensive to register because you need to get entire decree translated by official translator).
There may possibly be professional reasons (and visas for certain other countries) for having the British citizenship established as well as the spanish one...I would recommend doing it sooner rather than later.

SA, s**t. Better not get divorced then!

I went to register dds several years ago at the Italian Embassy in London, but - and I can't remember what it was - some trifle prevented me from doing so.

Probably you hadn't yet registered your marriage or somesuch. You must preservere as it will only get worse as time passes. Just make sure you get them to print out whatever they have registered so far. When I moved back to la, the consulate here claimed that they had not received anything from london and wanted me to start with the registering all over again. Luckily I had copies of the information. It still took a year for them to request info from London and agree that it was in fact done. It took 2 years to establish my citizenship in the first place (automatic in theory since my mother is Italian and came to the USA as an adult and had not yet taken american citizenship when me and my brother were born).
It also totally depends on who you speak to and what they had for breakfast that day.

Science Teacher is right. If you were not born in UK, then your children will not be British if they were born overseas (unless you are working for the British government or your father was when you were born).

You don't need to register the births at the Consulate either.