Marius Borg Høiby, son of Norway’s crown princess, confessed on Wednesday that he has spent much of his adult life “pretty heavily medicated” to cope with the pressures of living in the public eye. “I’ve been pursued by the press since I was three years old, very few people can imagine what my life is like,” he told Oslo district court. In his testimony, Høiby confirmed meeting the woman in the cocktail bar, where he remembered her “flirting with everything walking around” – including with him. Back at the Skaugum, the royal estate outside Oslo, Høiby said he could not remember having sex with the woman in a toilet. Asked about the photos found on his phone, Høiby denied they depicted sex without consent and insisted he never shared them.

Source: The Irish Times February 05, 2026 07:27 UTC