A Daughter of the British Empire
May 18, 2021
3 minutes
Text by Marion Scoular
Photograph by Jeremy Webber
was born in Haifa, Palestine, in 1935, when it was under British Mandate. My father was from Glasgow and my mother from New Bedford, Massachusetts, meaning I was born with dual citizenship to both the U.K. and the U.S. We returned to England when I was only six months old. When I was 16 years old, the American government passed a law stating that if you held dual
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