Irish entertainer Terry Wogan, who spent most of his career working for the BBC in Britain, described himself as a West Brit: "I'm an effete, urban Irishman. I was an avid radio listener as a boy, but it was the BBC, not RTÉ. I was a West Brit from the start. [...] I'm a kind of child of the Pale. I think I was born to succeed here the UK; I have much more freedom than I had in Ireland." He became a dual citizen of Ireland and the UK and was eventually knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.