Scandal within the Norwegian royal family. Marius Borg Høiby, son of Princess Mette-Marit, is suspected of rape and has been placed in pre-trial detention. But what do we know about the 27-year-old young man? Who is his biological father? Is he in the line of succession to the throne?
Marius Borg Høiby, the son of Norwegian Princess Mette-Marit, is suspected of rape and was arrested on November 18. The young man, placed in pre-trial detention, is accused of having “sexual intercourse with a person who was unconscious or otherwise incapable of resisting the act“, according to a press release from the Norwegian police. But what do we know about him?
Marius Borg Høiby, son of Mette-Marit of Norway: who is his biological father?
Marius Borg Høiby is the son of the Princess of Norway and her former partner Morten Borg, a man with a criminal record, having previously been accused of “violence, serious drug and drink driving offenses“. He had also left his mother when she was five months pregnant. It was therefore Mette-Marit who raised the child alone for a few years, before finally becoming engaged to Prince Haakon of Norway.
Finally, Mette-Marit’s son knew his biological father while growing up and his daily life was shared between that alongside his mother, who had become a princess, and that alongside his father, who married the daughter of a rich man in 2005. Lebanese upholsterer. A wedding for which Marius Borg Høiby took on the role of little page. As for Prince Haakon of Norway, he raised his wife’s son as his own and the Norwegian population quickly considered him a full member of the royal family.
Marius from Norway, in turmoil: mental disorders, drugs, domestic violence…
But Marius Borg Høiby is no longer the little blond head who made the Norwegians melt in the official photos. Now aged 27, he suffers from “mental disorders” and faces an addiction to cocaine, as he admitted last summer, after being arrested for assault and battery against his girlfriend, the influencer Rebecca Helberg.
According to Norwegian television NRK, an investigation was recently opened for physical and psychological violence, while three ex-partners accuse him. Another of his former girlfriends, Nora Haukland, recently assured in her podcast Nora Answerswhich she had had “fear” of the son of the Princess of Norway upon leaving him.
So many accusations which further tarnish the image of Marius Borg Høiby, who is certainly not in the line of succession to the throne, since he is not the biological son of Prince Haakon, but remains the half-brother of Princess Ingrid Alexandra, who is 2nd in the order of succession.
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