Do you think that the English people were surprised to?

Question

find out that the late Queen Mother was not born in Scotland. They all seemed to go up in arms at the suggestion that she was not Scottish. I believed she was Scottish as well

did anyone else think the same, then get a shock.

Answer 1

the Bowes -Lyon family lived in London at turn of century where the Late Queen Mother was born and i have always understood where you are born makes you a national of that country and therefore she was English

Answer 2

Who?  What Gueen mother, Mary?  I don't think she was a queen?  Her husband was a carpenter.

Answer 3

why would it matter they are all ruled by england

Answer 4

but she was scottish

Answer 5

I am not at all surprised. If she were a Scot, she would have chosen Scotch as her tipple, not Gin.

Answer 6

Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was born in London, in the hot summer of 1900, to the Bowes-Lyons, one of Scotland's leading aristocratic families. She enjoyed a privileged Edwardian childhood, split between the West End for the "London season", Glamis castle in Scotland (the fictional home of Macbeth) and the family home near Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

I am not surprised or shocked, and I am Welsh,if people took the time to read and learn then they would know, and unlike some of the sceptics, I do know just how important the Royal family is to the revenue of this country.Putting down the Royals seems to be a modern game for certain individuals, showing their ignorance,thats why many have no pride in britain anymore,em,shame on their lack of education and an inherant could'nt care less' attitude.Leaving us with no sense of community anymore.

Answer 7

i thought she was but aren't they german

Answer 8

I personally don't care, I hate the Royal Family and everything it stands for.

Answer 9

Whether Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon is classified as English or Scottish depends on whether one counts ancestry or residence.  She was born at St. Paul's Waldenbury, the Herefordshire house of her parents.  However, her father, Claude George Lyon, Lord Glamis (later Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne), was a Scottish noble.  Her mother, Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck was the daughter of a clergyman, the Reverend Charles Cavendish-Bentinck. Moreover, the Guardian writes that "she was the ninth child in an ancient and gregarious Scots family."

Many Scots who have moved to England still consider themselves Scots (or at best British) rather than English*, or as James Matthew Barrie, the author of "Peter Pan" once noted, "There are few more impresive signts in the world than A Scotsman on the make."  At any rate, the road from Scotland to London is a well-traveled one.

*P. S. Thanks for the education everyone.  I must have misunderstood a distant Scottish cousin when I asked if members of his family who lived in England considered themselves Scottish or English.  He replied that those of Scottish parentage even if they were born in England considered themselves Scottish, but those children of a Scottish mother who had married an English father considered themselves English.  

I've tried to look up this question on the Web, but the closest  answer I could come up with was that the British Naturalization Law applied two tests for British citizenship:

1) lex solis--if the person is born in the United Kingdom (of British parents);

2) lex sanguinis--if he or she is born in another country, but is the child of British parents. For example, Emma Watson was born in France to British parents, so she has British citizenship.  English common law, from what I have read, also determines a child's citizenship by his or her father's nationality.