She learned English through reading Harry Potter

Anya didn’t learn English until the age of eight as she spent two-years refusing to speak to anyone unless in was in Spanish. But in the end - like many millions of children the world over - Anya fell under the spell of J.K's magical book series about a boy wizard and eventually used the novels to teach herself English.

She said: "I wanted to go home, and in my six, seven-year-old mentality I thought my parents would have to take me back if I didn’t speak the language. My uncle would sit me down with the Harry Potter books, so all my language when I was young was quite precocious because I was learning from these books.

"I was very well versed in spells from a very young age."