King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway will be visiting The United States this fall.
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Carolyn Johnson of Kiel found the announcement on the web and thought it newsworthy.
Their majesties will travel on October 11th, 2011 to Minnesota and continue to Iowa in our Midwestern area. Following their Midwest visit, the couple will journey on to New York City. The full visitation has not been announced, but it is understood that the royal couple will meet with government and state officials of the territories where many Norwegian immigrants settled a century ago.
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King Harald and Queen Sonja are invited by the American-Scandinavian foundation to be special guests at a gala ball celebrating the AFS centennial anniversary. Although no official announcements have been made, it is believed that representatives of the Danish monarchy will be at the event, as well as representatives from Sweden.
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The American-Scandinavian Foundation (AFS) promotes international understanding and relationships through educational and cultural exchanges between the US and Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Founded in 1910 by Danish-American industrialist Niels Poulson, the AFS is a publicly supported, non-profit organization carrying on an extensive exchange between these countries.Vennskap Lodge has enjoyed presentations of several students from Scandinavian schools who have been studying in our area high schools. Stay tuned for further announcements.
Details will be announced when available.
Gee, do you think we could get them to to do the cultural presentation at a lodge meeting? :)
ReplyDeleteoooo, maybe we’ll get a peek at them when in Minnesota!
ReplyDeleteI'd like to hear the story of how Dell crashed the gala ball...
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