Nationality through descent
Citizenship by descent concerns how nationality is acquired through a parent. It does not mean every descendant of a British person automatically holds British citizenship.
How and when a parent became British can affect what could pass to a child born outside the UK. The child's birth date and family circumstances also belong to the enquiry.
A British grandparent can be relevant, but the intervening generation cannot simply be skipped. A special registration possibility is also different from citizenship already held from birth.
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