I got my dad’s Scots and Irish genes. Brown hair w/reddish overtones now totally silver, reddish beard, blue eyes, freckles as a child and burns easily. Even when I do ‘tan’ it’s reddish not brown.
Fascinating to read🙂
But if the people indigenous to the British Isles had not been given this (gorgeous) very fair skin, they might have suffered from vitamin D deficiency, since the British Isles have always had such cloudy, rainy weather with relatively little sunlight- especially during the winter months.