Gwyneth Paltrow has just taken one step closer to becoming an honorary English person by deciding to educate her children in England. Gwyneth and her husband (Coldplay’s Chris Martin) have just sold their townhouse in New York’s trendy TriBeCa area because they want to be in London full-time.

I know a lot of people are going to pick on Gwyneth for eschewing the American lifestyle, but I feel her pain — I’m enrolling my child in an English school when I move back to the States next week, so that she can continue her education in England full time in a few years time.

The Daily Mail reports:

After recently purchasing the house immediately next door to their home in London’s Belsize Park, Gwyneth and her husband Chris Martin have decided they want to educate their children – Apple, three, and one-year-old Moses – in the capital.

“They bought the house next to their London pad so they can have more space and plan to put their children through British schools. Gwyneth is particularly impressed with the English education system.”

The 34-year-old actress and 30-year-old Coldplay singer Chris won’t struggle with the fees if they opt to send their children to a top English prep school – they made a £3million profit on their TriBeCa home.

I know Gwyneth gets a lot of flack for being a wannabe Anglophile, but I get the same grief when I go back home to Chicago to a Puerto Rican family — I have to hold my temper when my friends tell me that they think English people all have nannies and are cold fish, when I distinctly know that the opposite stereotype is true. I think the reason why Gwyneth gets such hassle is that she usually has a holier than thou attitude when she gives interviews, and although I know being a loving eco friendly mother who eats macrobiotic everything and is alcohol free is probably a good thing, most mothers (myself included) simply cannot live to that ideal and do not like feeling guilty about feeding their kids fish sticks from the frozen food aisle after reading how perfect she is.

I do understand why she is sending her children to an English school. After enrolling my daughter at a school in England and having seen how their educational system works first hand, I too think that it is better than the schools I grew up going to. If you have the money and can afford to give your child what you think will be a good start in life, than I think there is nothing wrong with giving your child the advantage of growing up learning about two different cultures.

Note by Celebitchy: Gwyneth is definitely not alcohol free.