From royals and top Tories down, we're a mixed breed

Immigrants? Britain is plain full of them. Think of the House of Windsor, a hotch-potch of German and Greek ancestry with assorted other European bloodlines stirred into the pot. Think of such prominent Tories as Malcolm Rifkind and Michael Howard whose families successfully sought refuge from persecution before knitting themselves into the fabric of British life. Think of Charan Gill, whose Punjabi grandpa told the nine-year-old immigrant he would be judged on the level of his ambition. The multi-millionaire is emblematic of many Scots-Asian success stories.