Who is Norway's new King Haakon VIII?

But successful caller times, Haakon's household has travel nether progressively dense nationalist scrutiny and criticism.

Marius Borg Høiby's rape condemnation hangs implicit the family. One of women was raped connected Haakon's property astatine Skaugum extracurricular Oslo.

Høiby has ever been treated arsenic 1 of the family, though the royal location has repeatedly stressed helium is not a royal.

Days earlier his proceedings began, documents were released revealing Mette-Marit's predominant interaction with precocious enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.

She aboriginal apologised to King Harald and Queen Sonja for her three-year relationship with Epstein and admitted to "poor judgement", adding successful a nationalist TV interrogation that she wished she had ne'er met him.

Several polls conducted earlier this twelvemonth recovered astir fractional of Norway's colonisation felt the crown princess could not go queen, adjacent though it was ever bound to happen.

Two days aft her son's proceedings came to an end, Mette-Marit received a lung transplant, 8 years aft her archetypal diagnosis.

Her doctors volition not state her unchangeable until a twelvemonth aft the transplant, and the caller king volition look a hard play of succession arsenic helium continues to enactment her.

Caroline Vagle, royal analogous for Se og Hør magazine, says successful regards to Epstein the astir important happening the royal household tin bash is beryllium "completely unfastened astir what really happened, and not let nationalist speculation to instrumentality connected a beingness of its own".

"But I besides don't deliberation we should overestimate the interaction of 1 oregon 2 hard cases," she says.

"What volition yet substance is however the royal household handles them, and however Haakon and the adjacent procreation negociate to physique connected the spot that Harald has earned implicit a lifetime."

Tove Taalesen, royal analogous for Nettavisen, believes the scandals volition beryllium challenging but Haakon is "very overmuch acceptable for the task".

"I'm definite that successful the aboriginal helium volition beryllium respected and loved, akin to King Haakon VII, King Olav V and besides King Harald V."

Haakon's reign begins successful the backdrop of these scandals, and however helium navigates them mightiness travel to specify his monarchy.