Overview
- In a televised 20‑minute interview with NRK, delivered alongside Prince Haakon, she apologized and accepted responsibility for not checking Jeffrey Epstein’s past more thoroughly.
- She recounted feeling unsafe during a January 2013 stay at his Palm Beach property arranged through a mutual friend and said she phoned Haakon during the visit.
- Released documents detail frequent messages between 2011 and 2014 and show she used a Palm Beach residence in 2013; she said she only saw Epstein interact with adults and witnessed nothing illegal.
- She cited a serious pulmonary illness and her son Marius Borg Høiby’s court proceedings, which wrapped up hearings this week, as reasons for delaying a fuller explanation, and she has not been accused of any crime.
- Polling reported by Norwegian media shows support for the monarchy has declined since January’s disclosures, the prime minister welcomed her taking responsibility, and separate scrutiny has reached figures such as former prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland.