Sylvana Tomaselli

"Countess of St Andrews" redirects here. For the title, see Earl of St Andrews.
Countess of St Andrews
Born Sylvana Palma Tomaselli
(1957-05-28) 28 May 1957
Placentia, Newfoundland
Other names Lady St Andrews (formal);
Dr. Sylvana Tomaselli (professional)[1]
Occupation Historian
Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge
Religion Roman Catholic
Spouse(s) John Paul Jones
(m. 1977; div. 1981)
George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews
(m. 1988)
Children Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick
Lady Marina Charlotte Windsor
Lady Amelia Windsor
Parent(s) Maximilian Karl Tomaselli
Josiane Preschez

Sylvana Palma Windsor, Countess of St Andrews (born Sylvana Palma Tomaselli on 28 May 1957), is the wife of George, Earl of St Andrews, elder son and heir of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent. An historian at the University of Cambridge, she is usually known in academic circles as Sylvana Tomaselli.[2]

Duke of Kent family arms

Early life

Tomaselli was born in 1957 at Placentia, Newfoundland, daughter of Maximilian Karl Tomaselli (formerly of Salzburg) by his wife Josiane née Preschez. She was educated in Canada and England.

Marriages and family

Lady St Andrews married first, on 25 December 1977 at Vancouver, John Paul Jones, son of Captain Geoffrey Jones of Barbados, but they divorced in 1981 without children. She married second, on 9 January 1988 at Leith in Scotland, George, Earl of St Andrews[3] and they have three children:

Brought up in the Roman Catholic faith, Lady St Andrews' reluctance to renounce her adherence to that denomination no longer precludes her husband's right to ascend the throne. Two of her children, Edward (2003) and Marina (2008), were received into the Catholic Church thereby surrendering their places in the line of succession to the thrones of the Commonwealth realms, although Lord and Lady St Andrews' younger daughter, Amelia, is still in remainder to the British Crown.[4]

Academic career

Tomaselli, who has received BA (UBC), MA (York, Ontario) and MA (Cantab) degrees, became a Fellow of St John's College Cambridge in 2004.[5] She specialises in French and British political theory in the 18th century, especially the history of womanhood, and has written about John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill. She is the translator of Book II of the Seminar of Jacques Lacan, The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis. 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.[6]

She is a founding member of the European Centre for the Philosophy of Gender, Siegen, Germany[7] and is currently Director of Studies in History Part I and Social & Political Sciences at St John's College in the University of Cambridge.[8] She also acts as a pastoral tutor for students of Natural Sciences at St John's College.

Tomaselli has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[9]

Titles and styles

As the wife of the Earl of St Andrews (who holds the title by courtesy), Sylvana is styled as Countess of St Andrews.

Lady St Andrews prefers to be styled professionally as Dr. Sylvana Tomaselli.[10]

References

Preceded by
Countess of Ulster
United Kingdom Order of Precedence
Succeeded by
Lady Davina Lewis
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