Basques and more   If anybody knows why Claret is also called Bordeaux and is so popular in England then perhaps we should include Basques eg Piers Gaveston  Basques entered English society at the same historic time as the Irish  I also find it odd that Normans should get monolithic mention without Brittany  The Duchy of Brittany was a feudal subdomain of English Kings from the Norman Conquest until the th Century in one capacity or another  Aside from that we all know the British Welsh connection that practically makes them who they are by definition  SaintPierre and Miquelon has a flag and coat of arms which match English ethnic cousins on the Continent because virtually all of New France was founded by those Frenchmen once under English yoke north and west coasts of France  Englands arms supposedly include Aquitaine and Gascony as well as the wellknown Normandy  IMHO  Normandy has best ethnic transferance with England  Both Scandinavian Brittany has best ethnic transferance with Wales  Both RomanoBriton Aquitaine and Gascony has best ethnic transferance with Ireland  CelticBasque connexions hmm Queen Marys marriage with Spain  All of these domains were of great postConquest importance with added Scotland under Stuarts  The union of the crowns under James after the TudorHabsburg struggle marked the divergence of a merely English people and it is from there that a new British people was formed with participation in the Dutch and German dominions  As far as I know and now think the new British people is mostly a network of upper classparliamentary aristocrats and their personal heritage  I am proud to sport a th AquitainianPoitevin although Huguenot ancestor  I dont know further genealogy to find a recent Parisian nonLondon French what is called France but has English character ancestor  You know what side this ancestor would have fought on if Buckinghams war with France got serious  This opens up a window to the past glories of the Angevin Empire for me because although I sport a Scottish colonial American wife my own specific heritage does not leave the bounds of the three leopards of the Plantagenet dominions  What some people should look at is the French Wars of Religion maps  Huguenots are numerous in AquitaineGascony and Toulouse both former Angevin areas  One wonders if this Protestantism is an Albigensian Crusade relic an Arian Visigothic vs Catholic Frankish relic or both combined with a culture of English resistance to the Capetians  Also if mentioning the Danes we shouldnt neglect the Norwegians  I think the Royal Website summarizes our English ethnic roots by explaining them dynastically and the personal unions that encouraged a compatible mix of people  That is why I believe the French people are reasonably well related to nitpick or split hairs on it is just ridiculous