Sylvana Palma Windsor, Countess of Saint Andrews (''née'' Tomaselli, previously Jones; born 28 May 1957) is a Canadian-born academic and historian. By virtue of marriage she is a member of the

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and is related to the British royal family as the wife of

George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews George Philip Nicholas Windsor, Earl of St Andrews (born 26 June 1962) is an English philanthropist, former diplomat and relative of the British royal family. He was a member of HM Diplomatic Service in New York and Budapest. St Andrews became ...

, elder son of

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. A historian and lecturer at the

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, she is usually known professionally as Dr. Sylvana Tomaselli.

Early life

Tomaselli was born on 28 May 1957 at Placentia,

Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...

, daughter of Maximilian Karl Tomaselli (formerly of

Salzburg Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian) is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872. The town is on the site of the ...

) by his wife Josiane ''née'' Preschez. Sylvana belongs to the Tomaselli family, an old and noble family that has risen to prominent positions in both Italy and Austria; she belongs to the Austrian branch of this family. She was educated in Canada and England.

Marriages and family

She married firstly, on 25 December 1977 at

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, John Paul Jones, son of

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Geoffrey Jones of Barbados, but they divorced in 1981 without children. She married secondly, on 9 January 1988 at

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in Scotland, George, Earl of St Andrews, and they have three children: * Edward Edmund Maximilian George Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (born 2 December 1988 at St Mary's Hospital in

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) * Lady Marina Charlotte Alexandra Katharine Helen Windsor (born 30 September 1992 at the

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) * Lady Amelia Sophia Theodora Mary Margaret Windsor (born 24 August 1995 at the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge) Lady St Andrews' Catholicism no longer precludes her husband's succession the throne. Two of her children, Edward (2003) and Marina (2008), were received into the Roman Catholic Church, thereby surrendering their places in the

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of the

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s, although Lord and Lady St Andrews' younger daughter, Amelia, is still in remainder to the

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Crown.

Academic career

Tomaselli, who has received BA (UBC), MA (York, Ontario) and MA (Cantab) degrees, became a

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in 2004. She specialises in French and British political theory in the 18th century, especially the history of womanhood, and has written about

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and

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. She is the translator of Book II of the

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, ''

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''. She teaches the three History of Political Theory Papers and is an affiliated Lecturer of the Faculties of History as well as of Social and Political Sciences. She is a founding member of the European Centre for the Philosophy of Gender,

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, Germany, and is currently Director of Studies in

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and Social & Political Sciences at St John's College in the

, and a tutor for postgraduates. Tomaselli has been elected a Fellow of the

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References

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Saint Andrews St Andrews ( la, S. Andrea(s); sco, Saunt Aundraes; gd, Cill Rìmhinn) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and northeast of Edinburgh. St Andrews had a recorded population of 16,800 , making it Fife's fourt ...

British women historians Canadian people of Austrian descent Canadian people of French descent Canadian people of Italian descent Canadian Roman Catholics Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Sylvana Mary Wollstonecraft scholars People from Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador Translators of Jacques Lacan Tomaselli family University of British Columbia alumni York University alumni