OSLO, NORWAY: <\/p>\n
A second woman testified at a court in Oslo on Tuesday, accusing the son of Norway’s crown princess of raping her while she slept, describing it as her “worst nightmare”.<\/p>\n
Marius Borg Hoiby, Crown Princess Mette-Marit’s 29-year-old son from a relationship before her 2001 marriage to heir apparent Crown Prince Haakon, is on trial facing 38 charges, including raping four women and assaults against ex-girlfriends.<\/p>\n
He has pleaded not guilty to the most serious offences. He faces up to 16 years in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, a second alleged victim testified about a rape that the prosecution said took place on October 8, 2023, following an after-party in an apartment in Norway’s Lofoten Islands, which Hoiby and his stepfather were visiting on a surfing trip.<\/p>\n
After consensual sex, the alleged victim \u2014\u00a0a young woman he met on Tinder \u2014\u00a0said she woke up after Hoiby had resumed sexual relations with her which were not consensual.<\/p>\n
“That’s always been my worst nightmare,” she told the court, recalling how she closed her eyes “so I wouldn’t have to take part in my own assault”.<\/p>\n
“I remember waking up when he was already underway. I thought, ‘I don’t understand how someone can have sex with someone who’s sleeping’,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Then, I mostly had the feeling I was dissociating, leaving my own body,” she added.<\/p>\n
“It was painful, my body wasn’t ready for it.”<\/p>\n
In a bid to prove that the sex occurred when she was not in a state to say no, the prosecution submitted as evidence a video that Hoiby had filmed of the events with his own phone and which police later found.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Sturla Henriksbo said the five-second video showed the young woman asleep at the time.<\/p>\n
The alleged victim also spoke out against the images, which she said were filmed without her knowledge \u2014\u00a0for which Hoiby has also been charged.<\/p>\n
The prosecution also presented data from her fitness watch to prove that she was asleep at the time.<\/p>\n
“According to the prosecution, the change in heart rate is the most decisive factor,” Henriksbo told the court.<\/p>\n
Hoiby \u2014\u00a0who appeared pale at the start of Tuesday’s court proceedings, his hands trembling \u2014\u00a0was to take the stand later Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Last week, the court heard testimony from another young woman who claimed Hoiby raped her at another after-party in the basement of his parents’ royal estate outside Oslo in December 2018.<\/p>\n
The defence has rejected all of the rape accusations, arguing last week that they were all “perfectly normal and consensual sexual relations”.<\/p>\n
H\u00f8iby is not part of the Norwegian royal family and does not serve in a public role. He is constitutionally barred from becoming king of Norway. In a documentary filmed when Mette-Marit was pregnant with Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway, Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen, the sister of King Harald V, expressed concern about how things would turn out for H\u00f8iby, saying: ‘I feel terribly sorry for her son. When they have a child, poor Marius will be nothing. He is six years old, but he will understand that there is a difference. That will cause problems for them. I hope they have thought it through'”.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSLO, NORWAY: A second woman testified at a court in Oslo on Tuesday, accusing the son of Norway’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[16271,56102,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-130694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-latest","9":"tag-life-style","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-queens","14":"tag-queens-headlines","15":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}