What are YOUR connections to the UK?

My main most recent connection is Simon of course.  But before knowing him, I would have to say my mother's intense love for England had to have rubbed off over the years.  She has studied English history forever and knows more about the monarchy than most historians!!    I've always been attracted to "things English" - tea, the architecture, the manners, the culture, the accent, I could go on and on.

It's funny - Simon is always telling me I'm more European than I am American in the way I think about things and how I act and carry myself.  I told him that I take that as a surpreme compliment.   

~Liza

First is my brit bf, Jmaster (steve), but before then I went on a high school band trip to England. We stayed w/ a host family in Harrogate for a week and went to London for 3 days. I fell in love with Northern England. I said I wanted to live there someday. I never intended on that actually coming true - that was just fate. I never pursued it. Weird how some things turn out though, isn't it?

None family wise.

i fell in love with london the few times i visited before meeting Dave.

Then I met him, and my ties are aplenty! 

Born here, grew up here.  But you all knew that anyway!   

I'm a true Anglophile. A friend of mine, a fellow Anglophile, who I'd lost touch with until recently just emailed me and said "...you have always had such a love of England, I believe it is your real home. I never told you this but... when I met you, I couldn't believe there was someone even more devoted to the idea of moving there. It was your destiny." LOL. I just have always felt drawn to the place - even before I spent time here (which I started doing from the age of 18 until I moved here at the age of 34.... It started with music but moved on to just about everything to do with the culture.

I really can't say I had any connections here until I met my husband and gave birth to my daughter.  I have always had more of a passion for Italy because I have family there.  I do love being here though ( a beautiful country!).  It's definitely a lot closer to Italy than I was in the states, also.

I always loved England so I came over here to teach for a year, hooked up with this guy I met on the internet, moved in with him and then married him.

Born here, British mother, lived here until age 5, came back for holidays every summer until I was on my own and could no longer afford holidays! Still tons of aunts, uncles and cousins all over the place in Wales and England.

Born here, British mother, lived here until age 5, came back for holidays every summer until I was on my own and could no longer afford holidays! Still tons of aunts, uncles and cousins all over the place in Wales and England.

Don't tell me you're my long lost niece I've been searching for to leave my fortune to?

Dave

Don't tell me you're my long lost niece I've been searching for to leave my fortune to?

Uncle Dave!!! How's that will shaping up?

Uncle Dave!!! How's that will shaping up?

I'll get the mouthpiece on to it first thing Monday LOL.

Dave

My Great-Grandmother was English but until I met my husband, I had no other connection to England than my minor in college. Now happily have many connections!