Between the late 19th century and World War II, many so called "dollar princesses" married British aristocrats.

The trend only slowed when the women of newly rich families, who had been shunned by the American high society, began to be accepted by them.

[5][6] During the Second World War, the first influx of American troops arrived in Britain on January 26, 1942 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

[14] In a 2020 House of Commons research briefing on immigrants working in the National Health Service out of 1.28 million members of staff, 1,380 declared that they were American.

[16] Prior to the end of the Cold War, the highest proportion of Americans resident in the United Kingdom per head of population was centred on the Scottish seaside town of Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, the former site of the Holy Loch US Navy base.

Henry James, considered one of the greatest novelists in the English language, was born to a Boston Brahmin family and moved to London in 1869.

Despite living primarily in France, she was buried next to her husband in the Royal Burial Ground at Frogmore, the first American to be interred there.

[22][23] Andrew Tate is an American-British former professional kickboxer and businessman, was born in Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., then moved to United Kingdom.

[30] Working as soldiers, labourers, pilots, cooks, and musicians, they were a major part of the unsuccessful British war effort.

[31][32][33] To make sure no one attempted to leave who did not have a certificate of freedom, the name of any Black person on board a vessel, whether slave, indentured servant, or free, was recorded, along with the details of enslavement, escape, and military service, in a document called the Book of Negroes.

Sheila Ferguson, a former member of The Three Degrees, was born in and grew up in Philadelphia and has permanently settled in England since the 1980s where she is still famous with her own solo career.

[38] In 2001, 306 Puerto Rican-born people alone were residing in the United Kingdom (the nineteenth-most common birthplace amongst Latin American states).

[40] Chief Powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas spent some of her life in London two years after she married English colonist John Rolfe.

Surrounded By the Enemy, a twenty-two-year-old Oglala gun-slinging and horse-riding stuntman and a year old boy named Red Penny died during the tour in 1887.

Brulé tribesman Paul Eagle Star died after breaking his ankle when he fell off a horse in Sheffield on 24 August 1891 at age twenty-seven.

Two months later, a two-year-old girl named White Star Ghost Dog died when she fell from her mother's arms during horseback.

Blackfoot Sioux chief Charging Thunder came to Salford at age twenty-six as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1903.

Like many Lakota tribesmen, Charging Thunder was an exceptional horseman and performed thrilling stunts in Buffalo Bill's show in front of huge crowds, on the site of what is now Lowry in Salford Quays.

He married Josephine, an American horse trainer who had just given birth to their first child, Bessie and together they settled in Darwen, before moving to Gorton.