The Crown Princess of Norway faced her own Prince Andrew moment when she was questioned about her friendship with Jeffrey Epstein in a dramatic TV interview.<\/p>\n
Like the ex-Duke of York’s train-wreck Newsnight interview in 2019, the Scandinavian royal’s on-air reckoning is the culmination of a larger increase in media scrutiny over his relationship with Epstein.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsign up for Sun<\/span> Newsletter\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThank you!\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Mette-Marit, 52,<\/span> She said she was manipulated and tricked by Epstein, in an emotional effort to prevent the fallout from her relationship with the late sex offender.<\/p>\n He <\/span>In the interview, which aired today on public broadcaster NRK, he said he regretted his “very friendly relationship” with the disgraced financier.<\/p>\n mete-mariet<\/span> As the Norwegian family grappled with the huge scandal of her affair with Epstein, she said, “Of course, I wish I had never met him.”<\/p>\n The princess said: “I feel very manipulated, and when you are manipulated, you don’t realize it from the beginning.”<\/p>\n royal shame<\/p>\n ‘You make me smile,’ Norwegian princess tells Epstein as she reveals ‘wife hunt’<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n royal blow<\/p>\n Norway’s princess’ son denies rape allegations as royal family faces years in prison<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n He added, \u201cIt is incredibly important for me to take responsibility for not investigating her background more carefully.<\/p>\n “And take responsibility for being manipulated and deceived like I was.”<\/p>\n The princess was forced to apologize after the Epstein files revealed a series of incriminating messages between the royal and the late sex offender.<\/p>\n When the pedophile financier revealed he was “looking for a wife” she told Epstein “you make me smile” in flirty email exchanges.<\/p>\n mete-mariet<\/span> He also wrote to her saying that Paris was “good for adultery” and suggested that Scandinavian women might make “better wife material”.<\/p>\n In the interview the Princess said that she “did not know he was a sex offender or predator” during their friendship.<\/p>\n The pair exchanged hundreds of emails between 2011 and 2014.<\/p>\n And the Norwegian princess even stayed at Epstein’s Florida home when he was not there.<\/p>\n Epstein was convicted in 2008 of soliciting a minor for prostitution, with a plea deal that allowed him to register as a sex offender. <\/p>\n When the interviewer pointed out that Epstein’s convictions were clearly visible on the disgraced financier’s Wikipedia page at the time of their friendship with M\u00e9t\u00e9-Marit, she said: “I don’t remember that; it was 15 years ago.”<\/p>\n In 2011, she wrote in an email to Epstein: “Googled you after the last email. Agreed, didn’t feel too good.”<\/p>\n When asked why she stayed at the disgraced financier’s Palm Beach home in 2013, mete-mariet<\/span> Said to be caused by a mutual friend of the couple.<\/p>\n He added, “Epstein was a close friend of a good friend of mine.”<\/p>\n The royal mentioned an ominous “situation” that made her feel uneasy on the last day of her stay in Florida.<\/p>\n But she refused to divulge details of the incident, except to say that she had called her husband about it.<\/p>\n Crown Prince Haakon told the interviewer that he remembered her call well, adding that it made his wife feel “unsafe”.<\/p>\n The princess remained in contact with Epstein after the “situation”, but said she eventually broke up with him because of it.<\/p>\n mete-mariet<\/span> Said: “I over-trust, I think the best of people.”<\/p>\n \u201cBut I also decided to end all direct contact with him. <\/p>\n “And it was because of such episodes.”<\/p>\n It comes as the son of a scandal-hit Scandi royal faces up to 16 years in jail as he faces rape charges.<\/p>\n Marius Borg Hoiby, 29, has been charged with 38 counts including rape, sexual assault and domestic violence in one of Norway’s biggest trials in decades.<\/span><\/p>\n He pleaded not guilty to four rape charges in Oslo District Court last month.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Crown Princess of Norway faced her own Prince Andrew moment when she was questioned about her friendship with Jeffrey Epstein in a dramatic TV interview. 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