The files contain hundreds of emails between Mette-Marit and Epstein from 2011 to 2014, years after his conviction. In one from October 2011 she wrote that she had “Googled u after last email… Agree didn’t look too good.” She spent four days at his Palm Beach house while he was away. She apologised in February 2026 and later said on television that he had “manipulated and deceived” her. [1][2][3]
There is no allegation that she took part in any crime. The question Norwegians argued over was judgment, and whether a future queen kept up a friendship she knew was compromising.
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