They Have Arrived!

The King and Queen of Norway have arrived in Minnesota for their U.S. Tour.

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Tuesday, the royal Couple arrived in Twin Cities to a formal greeting from Gov. Mark Dayton, former Vice President Walter Mondale and St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman.King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway have arrived in St. Paul for their eight-day tour of Minnesota and Iowa. Four-year-old Bergen Gandrud Pickett, named for the Norwegian city, greeted the king and queen with a curtsey and a bouquet of flowers outside the Saint Paul Hotel Tuesday evening.

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After a trip down to Iowa, King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway are back in Minnesota for a few days, visiting the Mayo Clinic and several college campuses.

The king and queen are renewing their country's ties with the American descendants of Norwegian immigrants. In his appearance at Luther College on Thursday in Decorah, King Harald said the immigrants took pieces of Norway with them and that "nowhere is that more obvious than in Decorah,” where Norwegian immigrants founded the college. Friday, they had planned stops at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and St. Olaf College in Northfield. The weekend is rounded out with stops at Augsburg College in Minneapolis and the governor’s mansion in St. Paul. Monday, the king and queen head to Duluth, then off to New York before returning to Norway.