Arya News - The son of Norway`s crown princess was arrested on new assault charges Sunday just before his trial begins on Tuesday for four rape charges.
Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The son of Norway"s crown princess was arrested on new assault charges Sunday just before his trial begins on Tuesday for four rape charges.
Oslo police said Marius Borg Høiby, 29, was arrested for alleged assault , making threats with a knife and violating a restraining order .
Høiby"s trial on 38 charges -- including four rapes, domestic abuse of a former partner and illegal filming of a number of women without their knowledge or consent -- is set to begin Tuesday and last seven weeks.
He faces up to 16 years in prison. Høiby denied the most serious charges.
For the new charges, police have requested four weeks of imprisonment to prevent him from re-offending. Oslo district court ruled that he could be kept in custody until March 2 unless otherwise decided by court.
Norway"s (front, R-L) Queen Sonja, Crown Princess Mette-Marit, Crown Prince Haakon, Princess Ingrid Alexandra, King Harald V, and (rear, R-L) Princess Martha Louise, Marius Borg Hoiby and Prince Sverre Magnus attend the confirmation ceremony of Princess Ingrid Alexandra in the Palace Chapel in Oslo, Norway, in 2019. Hoiby was arrested Sunday on new assault charges. He is scheduled to face rape charges in a trial set to begin on Tuesday. File Photo by Vidar Ruud/EPA
The Norwegian royal family has been embroiled in controversy as Høiby"s mother, Crown Princess Mette-Marit"s name showed up more than 1,000 times in the latest cache of Epstein files released by the Department of Justice on Friday.
Mette-Marit, 52, is married to the future king of Norway, Crown Prince Haakon. She is the future Queen.
Magnus Haakon, the Crown Prince of Norway, Queen Sonja of Norway, Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway attend the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize presentation ceremony at Oslo City Hall on Dec. 10, 2025 in Oslo, Norway. The son of Mette-Marit, Marius Borg Høiby was arrested Sunday on new assault charges. He is scheduled to face rape charges in a trial set to begin on Tuesday. Photo by Paul Treadway/ UPI
The Norwegian parliament is scheduled to vote Tuesday on whether to keep the monarchy, which happens every four years. The effort to oust the monarchy isn"t likely to succeed, but it may have more support this time.
"It seems that nobody has been thinking. Where are the counsellors, where"s the royal court and where"s the foreign office?" said Ole-Jørgen Schulsrud-Hansen, a historian and royal correspondent for Norway"s TV2, the BBC reported .
Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Crown Prince Haakon attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for laureate Nihon Hidankyo in 2024 at the Nobel Peace Prize Institute in Oslo, Norway. Marius Borg Høiby, son of Mette-Marit, was arrested Sunday on new assault charges. He is scheduled to face rape charges in a trial set to begin on Tuesday. File Photo by Paul Treadway/ UPI
While Høiby is a private citizen and not officially part of the royal family -- he is Mette-Marit"s son from a previous relationship -- Mette-Marit isn"t.
"She"s never a private citizen, she"s always the crown princess and what she"s doing in a private capacity or official capacity it will always redirect back to Norway -- or ricochet," Schulsrud-Hansen said
Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit attend The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway, in 2023. Mette-Marit"s son Marius Borg Hoiby was arrested Sunday on new assault charges. He is scheduled to face rape charges in a trial set to begin on Tuesday. File Photo by Paul Treadway/ UPI