Paul Moss

He would prefer the media here to be focusing on what he sees as his achievements from the past year.

At the moment, there is no sign of this going away.

Peter Bowes in Washington.

The Epstein scandals have been distinguished by the sheer range of people they involve.

And that, of course, includes royalty.

Britain's former Prince Andrew lost his title as a result of the revelations, and his wife Sarah Ferguson is also implicated.

But so too is the crown princess of Norway.

Mette Marit is married to the heir to the country's throne and, in the normal run of things, will one day become queen.

But newly released emails suggest she had a closer relationship with the disgraced financier than was previously known.

As Tove Talisson explained, she's royal correspondent for the website Natavisen.

Tove Taliesin.

Even before the allegations emerged about the Crown Princess and Jeffrey Epstein, Norway's royal family was already in the midst of a scandal.

The princess has a son from a previous relationship, 29-year-old Marius Borg Herbie, and he is due to go on trial on Tuesday, charged with domestic violence, drugs offences and four counts of rape.

Paul Kirby reports.

For the next seven weeks, Norwegians will be transfixed by what unfolds in the modern district court complex behind me in the heart of Oslo.

29-year-old Marius Borg-Høbi faces 38 charges, ranging from rape and sexual abuse to drug trafficking and speeding offences.

He is not a royal, but ever since his mother, a commoner, married Crown Prince Håkon when he was four, he has seen the heir to Norway's throne as his dad and King Harald V as his grandfather.

That life within the royal family, but not a member of it, changed in August 2024.

The story was broken by Ulf Andre Andersen at celebrity magazine See & Hear.

Initially, Crown Princess Metamarit's son admitted assault and vandalism, but prosecutors later charged him with raping four women between 2018 and November 2024.