The son of Norway’s crown princess has been charged with rape and domestic violence, among other crimes, a prosecutor said. <\/p>\n
Marius Borg Hoiby, the oldest son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit, could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted of the most serious charges, according to Oslo state attorney Sturla Henriksboe.<\/p>\n
The 32 offences include one count of rape with sexual intercourse and three counts of rape without intercourse, some of which he filmed on his phone, the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old has also been charged with making death threats, abuse in a close relationship against one former partner and acts of violence against another.<\/p>\n
Hoiby denies the most serious accusations against him but plans on pleading guilty to some lesser charges in court when the trial starts, his lawyer Petar Sekulic said.<\/p>\n
“He does not agree with the claims regarding rape and domestic violence,” Sekulic said of his client.<\/p>\n
The charges come following a year-long police investigation, as part of which Hoiby was arrested in November 2024 and held in detention for a week.<\/p>\n
His trial could start as soon as January and is set to take around six weeks, the prosecutors’ office told broadcaster NRK. Hoiby is currently free pending trial.<\/p>\n
“It’s up to the judges to decide if he is guilty,” prosecutor Sturla Henriksboe said.<\/p>\n
This statement was echoed by the royal palace, which said that it was up to the courts to handle the case and reach a decision, and it had nothing to add beyond that.<\/p>\n
Read more from Sky News: Hoiby is the son of Princess Mette-Marit from a previous relationship and the stepson of the heir to the Norwegian throne, Crown Prince Haakon.<\/p>\n However, he is outside the line of royal succession and has no title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The son of Norway’s crown princess has been charged with rape and domestic violence, among other crimes, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-355580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115052854887987027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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