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[-] Deestan@lemmy.world 153 points 1 year ago

As a Norwegian of some age, this entire case was one of the most jarring news stories I've encountered.

Imagine following the news in the early 2000s. Our crown prince found love among the (extremely) common people, and got married to a woman who had a small child. Royalist tightbutts are pissing themselves at the breach of tradition but the rest of the country is charmed by the heartwarming love affair.

News plastered for months and months of of a couple in love, and Marius the cuutest tiny blonde litte boy barely out of diapers and being adorable everywhere. And it fades out.

20-something years pass, and news are going on about something "Marius Høiby..."

Omg! I remember him! He was the cutes- WHAT THE FUCK

[-] virku@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hate that our media has started dishing out any and all details including heresay for months when some court case or investigation of notoriety is going on. If it is a missing billionaires wife, a raping gynocologist, resurfacing of the same 30 year old murdered kids every 3 years or whatnot it is at the top of the newspapers for months. I don't want to read about that shit.

I don't want assholes to get famous after doing illegal shenanigans. I would much rather read news about a farmer saving his horse. Or even shaving his horse which auto correct wanted me to type for that matter.

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[-] random_character_a@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago
[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago

In Norway we call him Temu-Joffrey.

[-] xav@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago
[-] thedruid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That was my exact first impression

[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 1 year ago

Frankly, I wish we just abolished the damn monarchy already. I hate that we still have kings and queens in a democratic country even if they are just ceremonial. They don't deserve all this media attention just because they got a lucky birth

Treat all of them as one would any other citizen and be done with it. Unfortunately, the monarchy still faces popular support towards existing, though I hope it changes sooner or later

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 year ago

They don’t deserve all this media attention just because they got a lucky birth

While I agree with you in principle, this guy in particular didn't have a lucky birth. His parents were not aristocrats, his father is a felon and didn't stick around, his mother raised him alone at first. His grandparents on the mothers side are divorced and his grandpa is also a felon.

However when he was four and a half his mother married into the royal house. So he would have had a privileged upbringing from then on. So he's still super fucked up, to piss it into the wind with violent crime.

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[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

I hear America's rape-friendly "aristocracy" is looking for more recruits

[-] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Bitch please. Eurotrash royalty invented getting away with rape.🤣

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago

I hate to judge a book by its cover but...

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I was thinking he looks almost too much like what some bad movie would cast as a eurotrash douche villain.

[-] UnderFreyja@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

I mean... He do be a real life euro trash douche villain. Maybe he looked at those characters and was like: You know what? I like this style.

[-] starchylemming@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

his face has something uncanny about him

some kind of birth defect or just extreme drug abuse for years?

[-] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 20 points 1 year ago

this is shitty but it seems like a moment to see how Norway's corrective model for justice will work in an extreme case. I hope Norway can follow through with what they've been trying to do here

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 year ago

I didn’t know Malfoy was royalty.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Malfoy family is coded as aristocratic one tbf.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Resting rape face

[-] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago

At least in Norway they treat him like anyone else. Time for the US and UK to do the same. Money, fame and titles shouldn't be a get-out-of-jail (or any consequences) free card.

Prince Andrew has been stripped of his titles, been banished from the royal family. That's not a consequence, he needs to be in prison. Trump has been found guilty for just a few of his crimes, yet he's still able to become president. He needs to rot in prison for the rest of his life too. Instead he's free to do loads more crimes without consequences.

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Høiby’s status as part of the royal family, he added, would “not mean that he is treated more leniently or strictly than if similar acts were committed by others”.

We'll see about that.

[-] aim_at_me 8 points 1 year ago

I dunno man

Hoiby does not have a royal title and is outside the line of royal succession. The Norwegian royal court said: “It is for the courts to consider this matter and reach a decision. We have no further comment.”

It sounds like they hate the brat too lol.

[-] captain_zavec@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

At least from the folks I've talked to he is not well-liked

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[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 13 points 1 year ago

Why is it always the ones you most expect?

[-] gladflag@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Prediction: Zero time in jail.

[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

"Our client denies all charges of sexual abuse, as well as the majority of the charges regarding violence. He will present a detailed account of his version of events before the court."

"Look. Now. Listen, let me explain. I only violently abused them a little bit. We've all done that. Right? It was just a tiny bit of violence!!"

[-] viking@infosec.pub 9 points 1 year ago

He already publicly apologized for hitting his ex while high on coke, so he can't deny everything.

[-] aramis87@fedia.io 7 points 1 year ago

Høiby is alleged to have raped four women between 2018 and November 2024. All the alleged assaults allegedly took place after consensual intercourse while the women were sleeping.

I hope this goes better than Assange's trial went.

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[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

2025.... &...... Royal Family

If you have one in this day and age your society is fucked up.

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I lived in Poland all my presidents were an embarrassment. Extremely partisan, didn't know protocol, didn't speak any foreign languages. One scandal after another. The latest one is a ex football hooligan, cheater and simpleton.

When I got to Spain the king was most capable of meeting foreign leaders, very professional, speaks perfect English and French (and supposedly Greek, German, Portuguese, and Catalan), knows protocol and doesn't get involved in politics. The next in line is preparing her whole life to do the same.

Polish president and Spanish king server pretty much the same function in the government. The office of Polish president costs taxpayers about 10x more money than Spanish Royal family.

So yes, having royals in 2025 is sounds idiotic but it's actually quite practical.

[-] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

Now for prince Andrew

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

That "royal family" reads like the family tree on Oz.

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