| Emin was born in Croydon, a district of South London, to an English mother of Romanichal descent, and brought up in Margate with her twin brother, Paul. |
| Dahl acquired a traditional Romanichal gypsy wagon in the 1960s, and the family used it as a playhouse for his children at home in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. |
| Dr. Hancock, who appears in the film, is a Romanichal Gypsy, descended from British Gypsies. |
| Cromwell shipped Romanichal Gypsies as slaves to the southern plantations and there is documentation of Gypsies being owned by former black slaves in Jamaica. |
| The EU considers Gypsies, Roma and Travellers vulnerable ethnic minorities, although the differences between Roma, Kalderash and English Romanichal Gypsies are never clearly spelled out by Quarmby. |
