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The national identity of the English as different from their ancestors from Europe crystallized gradually after the Norman Conquest. Englishness - the defining characteristics (linguistic, cultural and social) of the English people - was the inevitable result of a number of factors that led ultimately, sometimes unintentionally, to the formation of the English nation.

(Flag of England to the right. It was used in designing the flag of Great Britain after the union of England and Scotland, and is now a component of the United Kingdom flag)