The son of Norway’s Crown Princess is because of return to a court docket in Oslo on Thursday for the third day of his trial for rape and greater than 30 different alleged offences.
On Wednesday, Marius Borg Høiby, 29, informed the court docket he has lived a lifetime of partying out of an excessive want of validation.
He was giving proof after the primary lady he’s alleged to have raped informed the court docket she believed “one hundred pc” that she had been drugged throughout an “after-party” within the basement of Høiby’s mother and father’ home in December 2018.
He denies 4 allegations of rape in addition to different severe prices in opposition to him.
The 29-year-old defendant, who was born 4 years earlier than his mom, Mette-Marit, married Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon, is just not a member of the royal household or a public determine, however grew up as a part of the broader household.
The BBC’s Paul Kirby stories from outdoors the court docket in Oslo.
Video edited by Ian Aikman.