Couple with Royal connections to visit Placentia

Sylvana (Tomaselli) Windsor. — file photo

Published on September 7, 2012; Published on September 7, 2012

Topics :: Holy Rosary Church , Argentia , Placentia Bay , Europe

A Placentia-born woman who married into the Royal family will visit the town next week.

Sylvana (Tomaselli) Windsor, the Countess of St. Andrews, will be joined by her husband, George Windsor, the Earl of St. Andrew.

They are visiting as part of Placentia’s 350th anniversary celebrations.

The Countess of St. Andrews was born in Placentia in May 1957 and baptized at the Holy Rosary Church that July. Her father was a civil engineer working on the American base at Argentia at the time.

She moved to Europe as a toddler.

In 1988, she married The Earl of St. Andrews. He’s the great-grandson of King George V, and the eldest son of Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent.

The couple will be in Placentia from Sept. 13 to 16.

During their stay — which is not an official Royal visit — they will be guests at a civic dinner on Sept. 14 and at the launch of Voices of Placentia Bay Festival the next day.

For more details, see Saturday’s print edition of The Weekend Telegram.

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bob

- September 8, 2012 at 10:45:05

. please tell me we will not have to pay there way. visit any time on your own dime...

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Non-Royality

- September 7, 2012 at 21:45:34

Why is she coming to Newfoundland. When prince Charles married Camilla a few years back a reporter wanted her to discuss her roots to Newfoundland and she refused, thumbed her nose at the notion and apparently was upset that someone had the nerve to ask her about her connection to the Rock. So when she shows up, I suggest the good people of Newfoundland do the same....

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Fred Penner

- September 7, 2012 at 16:09:54

As I live and breathe....the Royal Family is comming to have dinner with us....I am just giddy with anticipation! Boot the Royal Family OUT! Feudalism belongs in the Middle Ages.

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- Louis Humphreys
  
  - September 7, 2012 at 17:36:56
  
  lol Fred...I'm with ya buddy.

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