{"id":232482,"date":"2026-02-06T18:04:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=232482"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:07:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:07:52","slug":"norways-crown-princess-apologizes-for-friendship-with-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/232482\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway\u2019s crown princess apologizes for friendship with Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Norway&rsquo;s Crown Princess Mette-Marit apologised again on Friday for her friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/norway-crown-princess-apologises-king-queen-over-epstein-friendship-2026-02-06\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I also apologise for the situation that I have put the royal family in, especially the King and Queen,&rdquo; Mette-Marit said in a statement released by the royal palace.<\/p>\n<p>New files related to Epstein published by the U.S. Justice Department last week included extensive email correspondence between Mette-Marit and Epstein after he was found guilty of child sex crimes in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of several recent scandals involving the Scandinavian country&rsquo;s royal family: earlier this week, it became known that Mette-Marit&rsquo;s eldest son will face trial for 38 criminal charges, including rape.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway&rsquo;s Crown Princess Mette-Marit apologised again on Friday for her friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Reuters writes. &ldquo;I also apologise for the situation that I have put the royal family in, especially the King and Queen,&rdquo; Mette-Marit said in a statement released by the royal palace. New files related to Epstein published by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":232478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232483,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232482\/revisions\/232483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}