Are all brits related to the French through Normans and others or not?

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Very roughly indeed. After the last Ice-age glaciers receded about 10,000 years ago, Stone-age hunter gatherers roamed throughout Europe and parts of Britain. Some settled before the land bridge to the continent disappeared as the sea levels rose, not many, maybe a few thousand, after that, many other different peoples came and went peaceably until about 300 BC when fierce Iron-age Celts invaded. The Romans invaded in 55 BC and stayed until AD 43. They were followed by various invasions of Angles, Saxons and Jutes from Northern Germany and Denmark. From the 7th. to the 9th. century Britain was an Anglo-Saxon Kingdom but from 1016 it became part of the Scandinavian Empire of King Canute. In 1066 the Normans, who were Scandinavian settlers from Northern France, invaded, that was the last time Britain was invaded by another nation.
So you can see that in general there is little basis for believing that a great many in Britain have any direct
French lineage, but like all nations, we are a mixture of many
peoples, probably slightly more Germanic/Scandinavian than anything else. Although this is obviously an over simplification.

Yup

im not french.

No some of the Brits are related to Viking warriors or German families. Some may be pure Celtic stock.

England being out in the Atlantic has had invasions from many peoples. There were Celts and then the Romans came. After that it was the Germanic Anglo, Saxons and Jutes. Then the Danes came. Then the French speaking Norman who originally had been Northmen.

That is why the English language is as one person put it so mongrelized. You frequently have several words meaning the same thing. Then you have one word that can mean something entirely different according to how it is used in a sentence.

However, all nations have a variety of people.
The syntax drives people of other language origins crazy. Maria VonTrapp(portrayed in Sound of Music) said when she first learned English, she could not understand why if we said mouse and mice, we don't say house and hice.

Genetically speaking, the Norman additions to the British mix have been relatively minor since the Norman invasion added not more than 10,000 Frenchmen to the native population, according to Nicholas Wade's "New York Times" article, "A United Kingdom? Maybe" (6 March 2007). Wade notes that 3/4s of all the ancestors of today's Brits, including the English, Irish, Scots, and Welsh, arrived between 15,000 and 7,500 years ago before the last Ice Age cut the British Isles off from the European Continent.