Norway crown princess's son to stay in custody before rape verdict, says court

The court case has cast a shadow over the Norwegian royal family, as have revelations that Crown Princess Mette-Marit had a three-year friendship with disgraced late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Although Høiby was born before Mette-Marit married the heir to the throne, Prince Haakon, he was brought up within the royal family despite not being a member of it. The crown prince and princess visited Høiby in Oslo prison last Sunday, after it emerged that she had been placed on the waiting list for a lung transplant.Their children, Princess Ingrid Alexandra and Prince Sverre Magnus, visited Høiby hours after their mother had gone into hospital last Thursday.The 29-year-old was allowed out of jail on Monday to attend a meeting with his mother's doctor at the family's Skaugum estate outside Oslo. She was diagnosed with a rare form of incurable pulmonary fibrosis in 2018. The illness causes breathing difficulties and creates scar tissue that stiffens the lungs, making it difficult to breathe and for oxygen to enter the bloodstream.Her consultant Are Holm, a lung specialist at Oslo-university-hospital" class="entity-link entity-location" data-entity-id="5237" data-entity-type="location">Oslo University Hospital, told reporters last week that her condition had significantly worsened in the past three months, adding the rule for those being placed on the transplant list was that a patient was believed to have only a year left to live.King Harald, 89, and Queen Sonja, 88, have been largely shielded from the crises affecting the royal family.