Norwegian crown princess's son found guilty of two counts of rape
Marius Borg Høiby, the 29-year-old son of Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has been sentenced to four years in prison for raping two women.
Oslo District Court on Monday delivered a verdict in the case of Marius Borg Høiby, son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit. He was found guilty of two counts of rape and sentenced to four years in prison. The court acquitted him of two other rape charges, but convicted him on several other counts.
Høiby did not attend the court session in person but joined via video link. Prosecutors had sought a sentence of seven years and seven months, while the defence asked for 18 months and may appeal the verdict.
Marius Borg Høiby was born before his mother's marriage to the crown prince. He grew up within the royal family but is not a royal figure himself. Crown Princess Mette-Marit suffers from a rare lung disease, pulmonary fibrosis, and has recently been placed on a lung transplant list. Høiby's lawyers repeatedly sought his release from custody to allow him to spend time with his mother due to her declining health.
One of the three judges, Jon Sverdrup Efjestad, began the session with a summary and then presented the 128-page ruling. Høiby had denied all four rape charges, but the court convicted him of raping two women – one at the Crown Prince's estate in Skaugum in 2018 and another in Oslo in 2024. He was also convicted of abusing an ex-girlfriend, Norwegian influencer Nora Haukland. The court acquitted him of two further rape allegations involving a woman he met at a hotel in Oslo and another he met while on holiday in the Lofoten Islands in 2023.
