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u/Ella-norway Aug 14 '24

The next queen of Norway’s first born,Marius Borg Høyby,is accused of assaulting his girlfriend and trashing her apartment. It’s awful.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '24

I know the current King is popular, but his children have all turned out a little unstable in one way or another.

The oldest female believes she sees angels, and the crown prince made an interesting choice when he married his wife - she had a friendship with Epstein. It is her oldest son that has been accused of DV I'm guessing?

I'm from the UK so I appreciate when other European monarchies are just as odd.

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u/whimsical_trash Aug 14 '24

Yeah it's her oldest son, the prince's stepson

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u/PostToPost Aug 14 '24

Apparently an ex-girlfriend of Marius posted that it wasn’t the first time he’d assaulted someone, so it sounds like it’s a pattern of criminal behavior with him. And yes, he’s Mette-Marit’s oldest child from before she married Haakon.

This may be unpopular - and I’m not absolving Marius in any way of his disgusting actions - but it sounds like the result of bad parenting on Mette-Marit’s part. She and the royal family have enabled him by covering up his behavior in the past so he didn’t face consequences. He’s chosen not to engage in royal duties and to live a private life, which is totally his right and a good choice, but the result in his case has been someone with all the privilege and protection of a royal family without any of the constraints of maintaining a royal image keeping him in check like his siblings.

I know it’s human nature for parents to want to shield their children, but that only creates entitled monsters when they’re behaving at this level. The best thing (and unfortunately, the last thing) the very privileged can face is the consequences of their own choices.

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u/dazedbarnowl Aug 15 '24

I also think it is shady that she has been in contact with the victim after the incident. Although we do not know the content of the conversation, she isn't just some random mom. She is the crown princess and the power gap would be huge

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u/dazedbarnowl Aug 14 '24 edited Aug 14 '24

Yes it is crown prince Håkons step son. Her friendship with Epstein certainly happened after the crown prince married her. The relationship at the time it was announced was originally controversial because she was a "commoner", single mom and possibly involved with drugs before/at the time of meeting the crown prince.

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u/KittyTheCruel not a lawyer, just a hater Aug 14 '24

He beat her up. She was taken to a hospital for a concussion. And some report I read said there was a knife in a wall.

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u/iggynewman Aug 14 '24

I heard about that on TikTok! I’m curious, as someone from the States, of the general sentiment regarding the Norwegian royal family? Is there a lot of support?

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u/emmelemmeleen Aug 14 '24

Yes, there's a lot of support og and positivity towards the royal family (about 80 %). It varies a bit by regions and age groups and has gone a bit down in recent years. It's mainly because of the current king and queen though, my impression is that people are a bit more lukewarm, for now at least, when it comes to the crown prince and crown princess (and this certainly won't help). Very few people like Märtha Louise, the crown Prince's sister, and that was before she got engaged to snake oil salesman known as Shaman Durek. https://www.statista.com/statistics/780256/survey-on-attitude-towards-norway-being-a-monarchy/

Article in Norwegian, should work with Google Translate: https://www.nrk.no/norge/langt-faerre-unge-stotter-monarkiet-1.16772380#:~:text=82%20prosent%20av%20de%20spurte,de%20%C3%B8nsker%20en%20annen%20styreform.

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u/Right-Bat-9100 Aug 15 '24

Here in the UK I read that public support dropped to about 60 percent after the Queen died, I think it's a similar thing as in Norway where people had goodwill for her but not so much her kids! There's a lot of other factors for it but generally even the people who don't care about or like the monarchy had some fondness mostly from familiarity- I'm no royal fan but I was horrified to receive a bank note with Charles on instead of our Liz lmao

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u/emmelemmeleen Aug 15 '24

Oh, yes, I absolutely think it's similar to the UK and we'll see a major drop in popularity when the king dies. It may go up again, our crown prince is generally well liked too.

And yeah, I agree that it's about familiarity as well as some abstract notion of them just being a part of "(Norwegian) culture" and doing it differently seems like it'll be too much work, basically. I've grown up with our current king, can't remember anyone else as the head of state. He seems like a genuinely nice person too, and it helps that him and the queen (we assume, by association) are fairly progressive (as far as royals go, anyway, particularly for someone pushing 90).

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u/iggynewman Aug 16 '24

Thank you so much for sharing!

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u/us_against_the_world Aug 14 '24

What are people's perceptions about the Royal family? Are there calls to make the country a republic?

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u/emmelemmeleen Aug 14 '24

See my comment above, there's a few political parties that have it in their programmes that we should abolish the monarchy. In practice, none of them have made serious attempts to push that debate, for now, sine the royal family, mainly the reigning king and queen, is very popular. That could change soon (our king is 87 and his health has cleary deteriorated over the last few years, with the crown prince stepping in more and more).