{"id":334881,"date":"2026-09-01T14:18:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334881\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T14:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:18:50","slug":"norwegian-queens-disgraced-son-to-be-freed-from-house-arrest-after-rape-conviction-to-attend-king-harald-vs-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334881\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian queen\u2019s disgraced son to be freed from house arrest after rape conviction to attend King Harald V\u2019s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"

The disgraced son of Norway<\/a>‘s new queen will be allowed to leave house arrest despite a recent rape conviction to attend the state funeral of King Harald V<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Marius Borg H\u00f8iby<\/a> is currently serving a four-year prison sentence under house arrest after being found guilty on two counts of rape.<\/p>\n

“The public prosecutor deemed that there were grounds to grant the requests for leave submitted by H\u00f8iby in connection with the death,” police prosecutor Oda Karterud told AFP.<\/p>\n

The decision grants the 29-year-old temporary release to attend the funeral service on 9 September.<\/p>\n

\"H\u00f8iby<\/p>\n

H\u00f8iby has been granted permission to attend King Harald’s funeral while under house arrest (NTB\/AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

H\u00f8iby, who was born from a relationship prior to Queen Mette-Marit<\/a>‘s marriage to the new King Haakon VIII, was convicted of 30 additional charges alongside the two rapes, including domestic violence toward a former partner.<\/p>\n

He has since appealed against both, and was acquitted on two additional counts of rape during the original trial.<\/p>\n

Under Norwegian legal procedure, filing an appeal against a court conviction suspends its final binding status pending a retrial.<\/p>\n

Because of this, H\u00f8iby remains under custodial house arrest with an ankle monitor rather than serving time in prison.<\/p>\n

He had pled guilty to several lesser charges including aggravated assault, reckless behaviour, and drug-related offences.<\/p>\n

\"H\u00f8iby<\/p>\n

H\u00f8iby was been sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of 32 additional charges (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

H\u00f8iby was previously granted special dispensation to visit King Harald in hospital prior to the late monarch’s death on Friday<\/a> at the age of 89.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor confirmed that leave was also approved for H\u00f8iby to participate in Monday evening’s procession, when the King’s remains were transferred to the palace chapel.<\/p>\n

The temporary release comes as Norway observes a national period of mourning<\/a> following King Harald’s passing from complications related to hemolytic anemia.<\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of citizens gathered outside the royal palace in Oslo<\/a> over the weekend, leaving floral tributes, handwritten notes, and candles.<\/p>\n

The state funeral will take place at 1pm at Oslo Cathedral, led by Olav Fykse Tveit, the presiding bishop of the Church of Norway.<\/p>\n

\"Tens<\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the royal palace in Oslo on Saturday to pay tribute to King Harald (Reuters)<\/p>\n

King Haakon VIII took his formal oath to the constitution on Tuesday, inheriting a monarchy that is navigating mounting controversy.<\/p>\n

The royal household has faced ongoing scrutiny over Queen Mette-Marit’s friendship with late American financier Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, alongside her son’s criminal convictions.<\/p>\n

The release of the Department of Justice’s “Epstein files<\/a>” in late 2025 revealed hundreds of email exchanges between the queen and the convicted sex-trafficker.<\/p>\n

Queen Mette-Marit joined the procession on Monday evening, marking her first public appearance <\/a>as queen after undergoing a lung transplant in June following a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The disgraced son of Norway‘s new queen will be allowed to leave house arrest despite a recent rape…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3345,125858,6667,125782,125747,125746,71024,9,24,75537,63,125732,125859,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-334881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-afp","tag-afp-getty","tag-epstein","tag-haakon-viii","tag-harald","tag-hoiby","tag-king-harald","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-norway","tag-nyc","tag-queen-mette-marit","tag-queen-mette-marits","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334881","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=334881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}