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I have English family in Northhampton and have been to England numerous times.

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.

When I moved to London at age 16, tired of the shuffle around other people's houses and ready to live on my own, I met my English brother and sister, who instantly claimed me as family.

I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.

I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

I grew up in northwest London on a council estate. My parents are Irish immigrants who came over here when they were very young and worked in menial jobs all their lives, and I'm one of many siblings.