Overview
- A suspicious letter to Princess Ingrid Alexandra's Sydney student apartment prompted an Australian police probe and a man was charged and brought to court after the item was intercepted.
- An Australian court issued a two-year order banning the 63-year-old accused from approaching the princess and from entering the University of Sydney, a ruling reported after the June 3 hearing.
- The accused denied malicious intent, said he only sought friendship, was involved in an altercation with a photographer after the hearing, and was released on bail pending further investigation.
- Princess Ingrid Alexandra has returned to Norway to be with Crown Princess Mette-Marit, whose chronic pulmonary fibrosis has worsened and now requires a lung transplant, and she will enroll at the University of Oslo through the normal exchange admission process.
- Norway's domestic security service PST says it coordinated closely with Australian authorities and has taken unspecified protective measures, and the case will continue to be investigated with cross-border cooperation.