announced on Jan. 15<\/a>, includes married duo John Erb and Teri Theno-Erb as King Winter and Queen of the Northlands, respectively, and Kitty Ryan \u2014 the first and only woman Vulcan, back in 1952 \u2014 as\u00a0Princess of the Four Winds.<\/p>\nAnd in true Winter Carnival tradition, Royal Family members\u2019 sponsoring organizations become their official \u201cRoyal House.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 2026 Royal Family<\/h2>\n
King Boreas LXXXIX:<\/strong>Peter Kenefick, from the Royal House of Emmett\u2019s Public House and Saji-Ya<\/p>\nAurora, Queen of the Snows: <\/strong>Erin Gustafson, from the Royal House of Bernie Swafford at Edina Realty<\/p>\nPrime Minister: <\/strong>Tom Barrett, from the Royal House of Pilot Games<\/p>\nTitan, Prince of the North Wind: <\/strong>Jim Hawkins, from the Royal House of Hamernick\u2019s Flooring Solutions<\/p>\nNorth Wind Princess: <\/strong>Stacy Johnson, from the Royal House of Party Time Liquor<\/p>\nEuros, Prince of the East Wind: <\/strong>Thomas Maida, from the Royal House of Marylee Maida, Queen of the Snows 1956<\/p>\nEast Wind Princess: <\/strong>Natalka MacDonald, from the Royal House of Quality Insurance Service<\/p>\nZephyrus, Prince of the West Wind:<\/strong> Tyler Fehrman, from the Royal House of Mama T\u2019s Castle Tap & Boar\u2019s Head Leather<\/p>\nWest Wind Princess: <\/strong>Katelyn Bergstrom, from the Royal House of River Hills Automotive<\/p>\nNotos, Prince of the South Wind: <\/strong>Tim Whitacre, from the Royal House of City & County Credit Union<\/p>\nSouth Wind Princess: <\/strong>Christine Hanley, from the Royal House of Northern Prairie Financial<\/p>\nCaptain of the Guard: <\/strong>Erin Harrington<\/p>\nSergeant of the Guard and North Wind Guard: <\/strong>Matt McGraw<\/p>\nKing\u2019s Guard and East Wind Guard:<\/strong> Alex Jarboe<\/p>\nWest Wind Guard:<\/strong> Abigail Medved<\/p>\nSouth Wind Guard: <\/strong>Veid Muiznieks<\/p>\nRoyal Coordinators: <\/strong>Barb & John Maslowski<\/p>\nRoyal Handler:<\/strong> Tina Cook<\/p>\nKlondike Kate: <\/strong>Ruby Ericson, from the Royal House of St. Croix Hospice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.twincities.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boreas LXXXVIX Peter Kenefick waves to the crowd after being introduced during the 2026 St. Paul Winter Carnival Royal Coronation at the RiverCentre in St. Paul on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (John Autey \/ Pioneer Press) Boreas LXXXVIX Peter Kenefick adjusts his crown during the 2026 St. Paul Winter Carnival Royal Coronation at the RiverCentre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2248092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[435264,363226,22482,435265],"class_list":["post-2248091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-grand-avenue","tag-st-paul","tag-things-to-do","tag-winter-carnival"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2026-St-Paul-Winter-Carnival-Royal-Family-announced-\u2013-Twin-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248093,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248091\/revisions\/2248093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2248092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}