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I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.

You know, I've just about got used to the fact that people in Britain know who I am on some level, but the notion that there's any kind of international recognition is still slightly bizarre to me.

Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.

I don't get recognized in England. Not at all. Every so often, I get recognized in other countries.

Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.

The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'

I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.

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.

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