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Who Guards Skaugum?

An intruder reached Queen Mette-Marit’s son inside his home on a guarded Norwegian royal estate. How could he get that far?

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Odd Inge Teige
Nov 9

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Marius Borg Høiby, the son of Norway’s Queen Mette-Marit and stepson of King Haakon, was pushed by a man who entered his home at Skaugum during the night of November 6, according to his defense lawyer, Alexander Greaker.

Greaker told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK th…

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