Norwegian police announced this morning the arrest of the Crown Princess' son Mette-Marit from Norway for rape. Born from a relationship prior to his mother's 2001 marriage to Haakon, heir to the Norwegian throne, Marius Borg Hoiby27, was arrested last night. He is suspected of having had “sexual intercourse with a person who was unconscious or unable to resist this act,” police said in a statement.
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Who is the princess's son
Marius Borg Høiby is Princess Mette-Marit's firstborn. Born in 1997, he was born when his mother was 23, from a relationship with Morten Borg, who was a drug dealer at the time. Marius was well received into the Norwegian royal family, but never had titles and was not adopted by Haakon Magnus. Since 2017, he no longer participates in official family events, by personal choice. A choice resulting from an unusual position, as his mother declared when announcing this “withdrawal” from the stage. “Marius has always had a difficult role to define in the public sphere. He is and will be an exceptionally important part of our family, he has become the symbol of the unusual choice we made when we got married and at the same time he will not have public duties like his brothers. »
Expelled from the royal residence
According to the Norwegian magazine Aftenposten, the 27-year-old no longer lives in Skaugum, the official residence of his mother and her husband Haakon Magnus, crown prince. This would not, however, be a choice: Marius Borg Høiby would have been expelled from the main wing of Skaugum due to certain thefts which allegedly occurred on the property in recent months, during certain parties organized by the young man and at which friends would have participated in the unsavory journey. Rumors on this subject had already circulated last September, when the magazine Se og Hør revealed that during the Marius celebrations, valuable objects belonging to the royal family had disappeared. In early October, it was revealed that the young man had caused various damages to Skaugum and even destroyed his room. A situation that Haakon Magnus eventually put an end to, although no official statement was made on the matter.
Where he lives
It is certain that today, Marius Borg Høiby still lives in Asker, the town on the outskirts of Oslo where the official residence of the heir to the throne is located, but in a different wing from that of the family, in a house on the edge of the forest which surrounds the estate. This is the latest in a series of unpleasant incidents that have recently involved young Marius, who is struggling to find a role within a family to which he belongs but from which he is at the same time estranged.
Attack on ex-girlfriend
The most serious event remains that of last August, when he attacked his ex and was held for hours by the police. The affair prompted another ex-girlfriend, Julianne Snekkestad, to speak out on Instagram: “Even though family and close friends knew, I am now choosing not to wait any longer. And to answer the questions: “Yes. I have suffered psychological and physical violence in the past from the person in question. Where the psychological violence was more brutal for me,” wrote the young woman, model and psychology student. And again: “All this must be stopped now. It is no longer possible for other women to be exposed to all this and I feel the responsibility to share it.”
Marius' apologies
Then, Marius's public apology: “I apologize to my girlfriend, she did not deserve what happened”, and an apparent new tranquility achieved. Apparent, indeed. Now he has been kicked out of the house, for other serious crimes. This is not a good time for the Norwegian royal family, who also have to deal with the health problems of Princess Mette-Marit: suffering from pulmonary fibrosis for several years, she recently resumed treatment due to an exacerbation of the disease.
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