Høiby demands release as topless protesters target Mette-Marit

0:03 Calorougus Shark Media, Hello and welcome to Crown and Controversy Norway, Am your Palace Intrigue host Mark Francis. There was no court session Monday in the trial of Marius Borg Hoibi, but the case still produced several developments around the court room. As the trial enters its sixth week, the biggest legal move came from Hoibi's defense team. After spending five weeks in pre trial detention, Hoeby has now formally asked the court to release him from custody. His lawyer, Allen Holldger and Danaeus, confirmed that a request has been submitted to Oslo District Court. She said there has been a petition sent to the court requesting his release. Hobby was arrested the day before the trial began on February third, after prosecutors accused him of violating a restraining order and threatening the so called frog Noowoman with a knife during an incident in his apartment. Ordered him held in custody because of what Norwegian law calls risk of repetition, the concern that he might commit new offenses if released. Police prosecutor Andreas Krzhsky confirmed that the prosecution does not support releasing him, stating we have considered the request and have decided not to release him on our own initiative. Instead, the issue will now be decided by the court and will be made without a hearing. Weeby has been held in custody throughout the trial, which is scheduled to run until March nineteenth.

1:30 Under Norwegian law, a defendant who has detained when a trial begins can remain in custody until a verdict and potentially for several weeks afterward. Meanwhile, another issue surrounding the trial surfaced Monday, this time involving the media. Norwegian news organizations held what they described as a crisis meeting after several mistakes in reporting from the court room. So far, the judge has cited five violations during the trial. Three involved breaking a court order that prohibits photography in the court room. Two others involved media outlets publishing the first name of a protected victim. Raydn shelling Nuber, the Secretary general of the Norwegian Editors Association, warned that patients from the court may be running out. She said if media outlets that have already made mistakes make new mistakes, they risk the entire newsroom losing accreditation. We cannot tolerate more mistakes.

2:23 When proceedings continue this morning, Hoeby will return to the witness stand as the court continues working through the charges connected to the Frogner woman, more crown and controversy. In just a moment, while those developments were unfolding around the courthouse, another story in Oslo briefly drew national attention over the weekend. Early Sunday morning, an explosion damaged the entrance to the US embassy in Oslo. Police say the blast occurred around one in the morning near the consolate section of the compound. No injuries were reported and the damage appears to have been minor, but investigators say they are treating the case seriously. Authorities say they are not rolling out terrorism, though investigators stress that the case is still in its early stages.

3:09 Frodo Larsan, who heads the Joint Investigation and Intelligence Unit, told reporters that one possible explanation is that the embassy itself was the target. It is natural to view this in the context of the current security situation. One of the hypotheses is that it is terrorism, but we are not locked into that hypothesis. We also have several developments involving Crown Princess Madamerie, who remains absent from public duties as the royal family faces a difficult period. The Norwegian Palace confirmed Monday that the Crown Princess has not appeared in the official royal calendar since late January. In a statement, Palace communications chief Yuri Varip said the situation is connected to her health. The Crown Princess has long lived with chronic lung condition pulmonary fibrosis, and the Palace says her health has recently worsened. Wrote that the Crown Princess now has an increasing need for adapted training, rest and recovery, adding that her official program is being adjusted to match her medical condition as announced in December. Doctors have also begun preparations to evaluate her for a possible lung transplant.

4:17 Over the weekend em Paris, members of the activist group Famine staged a topless protest outside of the Love on International Women's Day, targeting powerful figures linked to Epstein. One demonstrator had the words I Am Mada Marie painted across her torso. Other names referenced in the protest included Prince Andrew Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Gleam Maxwell and Elon Musk. Protesters wore pig masks and painted the phrase Team Epstein, get them all across their backs. A one hundred and twenty year old mystery is roaring back to life, and it comes at the worst possible moment for Norway's embattled monarchy. A forthcoming biography of Queen Maude is set to re examine one of the most explosive theories in Scandinavian royal history, that the royal bloodline itself may be built on a secret.

5:05 The claim, first raised by historian Taught Bowman Larson, suggests that when Queen Ward struggled to produce an air in the early nineteen hundreds, she may have turned to what would have been a pioneering fertility procedure in London. According to the theory, the donor was not King Hearken the seventh, but a British commoner, Guy Francis Laking, the son of a royal doctor. Nine months later, the future King Olive the fifth was born. If it were ever proven, it would mean that today's royal line, King Harold and Crown Prince Harken are not biologically descended from the man who founded the modern Norwegian monarchy, that is the constitutional nightmare scenario.

5:46 Royal supporters in Norway have dismissed the theory for years and there is no definitive proof, but the issue was back in the headlines because historian Arnold Scree has spent years researching Maude's life in archives across Europe, and her book is expected to address the question. All of this is landing as the royal family is already under intense pressure. Crown Princess Metamrita is dealing with the international fallout from her past links to Jeffrey Epstein and of course the trial of Marius Borghebi. And there you have it. If you'd like to email us our addresses the Palace Intrigue at gmail dot com. My apologies for murdering pronunciations of Norwegian names im Mi Grantis thanks to John McDermott. This is Crown and Controversy Norway.