Princess Mette-Marit's son suspected of rape and arrested

Norwegian police announced Tuesday, November 19, the arrest of Crown Princess Mette-Marit's son on suspicion of rape. Born from a relationship prior to his mother's marriage in 2001 to Haakon, the heir to the Norwegian throne, Marius Borg Hoiby, 27, was arrested Monday evening.

He is suspected of having “sexual intercourse with a person who was unconscious or otherwise incapable of resisting the act”the police reported in a press release. “What the police can say about this rape is that it was a non-penetrative sexual act. The victim would have been unable to resist the act”said the police. Investigators also searched and made seizures at the suspect's home, she said in the afternoon.

Knife in the wall

Borg Hoiby was arrested on August 4 following a late-night argument in a woman's apartment in Oslo, and accused of causing bodily harm to the resident with whom he was in a relationship. Norwegian media reported that police found a knife stuck in one of the walls of the woman's bedroom at the time. He was then arrested again in September for violating a protection order.

Police say when he was arrested Monday, he was in a car with the alleged victim from the August incident. On Tuesday, police also said suspicions relating to the first incident now included domestic violence. No decision has yet been taken, according to the police, concerning a possible placement in pre-trial detention.

Hoiby and his half-siblings – Princess Ingrid Alexandra, 20, and Prince Sverre Magnus, 18 – were raised together by Mette-Marit and Haakon. Unlike them, he has no official public role.