{"id":406665,"date":"2026-02-04T02:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406665\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T02:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:45:09","slug":"trial-of-norway-crown-princesss-son-hears-tearful-account-in-rape-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406665\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial of Norway crown princess&#8217;s son hears tearful account in rape trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although he has grown up as Crown Prince Haakon&#8217;s stepson, Marius Borg H\u00f8iby is not a member of the royal family or a public figure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the first count of rape is alleged to have taken place in his parents&#8217; basement on their Skaugum estate outside Oslo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the trial began at Oslo district court on Tuesday, the palace came under increasing pressure to explain his mother&#8217;s three-year exchange of messages with the late sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein between 2011 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crown Princess Mette-Marit has already admitted to &#8220;poor judgement&#8221;, after details emerged of a four-day stay at his home in Palm Beach, Miami. But the palace has said little more as further revelations have emerged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No photos were allowed as her son entered courtroom 250 at Oslo district court at the start of a seven-week trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wearing thick-rimmed glasses, a brown sweater and olive-green trousers, the blond defendant fiddled with a bracelet, speaking very quietly as he pleaded not guilty to raping four women. He later removed his sweater and sat in a plain, white T-shirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although he has grown up as Crown Prince Haakon&#8217;s stepson, Marius Borg H\u00f8iby is not a member of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-406665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}