She was raised in Britain where her English friends called her Emma.
Two decades ago, it was a complacent default identity, with many English using Britain when they meant England.
The 12-page article in current affairs magazine Stern, which sells around one million copies a week, paints a damning portrait of modern Britain under the title of The English Patient.
Various complicated air treaties mean that most air cargo between Britain and America has to go via English airports.
He returned to Britain and died in his community's very English home at Mirfield in Yorkshire.
Perhaps the wilful obscurantism and dreadful English that now afflict humanities faculties in Britain as elsewhere have eroded their influence outside the academy.
Prague has half a dozen low-cost flights a day from Britain alone, making it more likely to hear English rather than Czech in the streets of the old town.
The Scots may prefer to be Scottish, Englanders may be warming to the idea of being English, but I suspect that brand Britain will bounce back as voters consider the uncertain economic and diplomatic consequences of breaking apart in a scary financial climate.
London, England (CNN) -- Nestled in a sheltered bay on the English Channel coast, Weymouth is one of Britain's most picturesque seaside towns.
This global influence combined with our stubborn insistence on communicating in English has finished the work begun by Great Britain, elevating our language to primacy around the world.
It has been described by English Heritage as the most complete Napoleonic fortification in Britain.
These benefits for the Scots, the Welsh and the English will add up to a general benefit for Britain as a whole.
Maastricht University in the Netherlands, which runs many courses in English, has reported a large increase in applications from Britain, with 400 applying compared with only 35 in 2010.
Pictures taken on the home front are rarely an important part of a country's war record, but Brandt's images are indispensable to understanding Britain during the Blitz, Hitler's attempt to bomb the English into submission.
It is not only Britain's biggest satellite broadcaster but also the main broadcast partner for the English Premier League, with a near monopoly on the League's domestic broadcast rights.
According to a report last month by the World Bank, almost three-quarters of the nurses who train in the English-speaking Caribbean leave to work in the United States, Britain or Canada.
By setting a uniform target for the size of seats across Britain, the government's bill would also remove the current quirk that English constituencies tend to contain more voters than seats in Scotland, Northern Ireland and especially Wales (which could lose up to ten MPs).
In her lifetime, she announced, all of Britain's problems had come from Europe, and all the solutions from the English-speaking nations across the world.
Given our English tradition and the fermentive gestation period preceding the formal break with Great Britain, the Declaration itself was not seen as particularly important at the time of its creation.
Previously, English Heritage said the base was the best-preserved Cold War air base in Britain and should be protected.
More broadly, the English should welcome a decentralisation of power that may help to invigorate peripheral parts of Britain.
This was in 1919, when his father was Polish ambassador to the Court of St James, but the connection with Britain went back to his grandfather, who had served in the British army, and continued through the English governess who accompanied the family back to Poland and brought him up.
In both America and Britain, some feel that, whatever people speak at home, priority should go to making sure that children know English well.
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