{"id":333870,"date":"2026-08-31T15:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333870\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:05:12","slug":"norwegian-queens-son-let-off-house-arrest-for-kings-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333870\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian queen&#8217;s son let off house arrest for king&#8217;s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                        Marius Borg H\u00f8iby, the son of Norway&#8217;s Queen, will be allowed temporary leave from house arrest following his rape conviction to attend the funeral of King Harald V, police said on Monday.\n                    <\/p>\n<p>H\u00f8iby, born from a relationship prior to Queen Mette-Marit&#8217;s marriage to Harald&#8217;s son, King Haakon, was sentenced in June to four years in prison for two rapes, a conviction he is appealing.<\/p>\n<p>He is serving his sentence under house arrest with an ankle tag while awaiting his appeals trial and was previously granted dispensation to visit Harald in hospital before the late king&#8217;s death aged 89 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The public prosecutor deemed that there were grounds to grant the requests for leave submitted by Hoiby in connection with the death,&#8221; police prosecutor Oda Karterud told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Leave has been granted&#8230; for the funeral on September 9th,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>H\u00f8iby, 29, was also given permission to attend the transfer of the king&#8217;s remains to the palace chapel on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the two counts of rape, H\u00f8iby was also convicted of 32 other charges, including violence towards a former partner.<\/p>\n<p>He was acquitted of two other rapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marius Borg H\u00f8iby, the son of Norway&#8217;s Queen, will be allowed temporary leave from house arrest following his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-333870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333870","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=333870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}