The royal facade cracks wide open with one heartbreaking, incredulous line: “I miss my crazy friend,” Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway wrote in a private email to Jeffrey Epstein—words now laid bare in the explosive 2026 unsealed files, revealing a friendship the palace long denied ever existed.
The newly released documents show the Norwegian princess exchanging warm, personal messages with the convicted sex offender for years, sharing family updates, joking about “wild ideas,” and even referring to him affectionately as someone who “always makes me laugh.” These candid exchanges stand in stark, painful contrast to the carefully curated image of royal dignity and distance from scandal.
As Norway grapples with shock and disbelief, one chilling question hangs in the air: just how close was this royal connection—and what other intimate details are still hidden in the files?
The royal facade cracks wide open with one heartbreaking, incredulous line: “I miss my crazy friend,” Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway wrote in a private email to Jeffrey Epstein—words now laid bare in the explosive 2026 unsealed files released by the U.S. Department of Justice on January 30. The phrase, sent in January 2013 from an account labeled “H.K.H. Kronprinsessen” (Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess), reveals a level of personal affection that starkly contradicts the Norwegian palace’s long-standing insistence of minimal or no ongoing contact with the convicted sex offender.
The massive document dump—over 3.5 million pages, including thousands of emails, videos, and images under the Epstein Files Transparency Act—shows extensive correspondence between Mette-Marit and Epstein from 2011 to at least 2014, with nearly 1,000 mentions of the princess. Emails portray a warm, playful friendship: she called him a “sweetheart,” “soft hearted,” and someone who “tickles my brain,” while sharing family updates, book recommendations, shopping trips, vacations, and lighthearted jokes. In one 2012 exchange, she asked if it was “inappropriate for a mother to suggest two naked women carrying a surfboard for my 15 yr old son’s wallpaper,” referring to her son Marius Borg Høiby. Epstein discussed his “wife hunt” and preferences for Scandinavian women; she responded with quips about Paris being “good for adultery” and Scandinavians as “better wife material.” She admitted in 2011 to Googling him and noting his past “didn’t look too good,” yet the exchanges continued.
The files also indicate invitations to Epstein’s Little St. James island—at least twice—and his Palm Beach villa, where she reportedly stayed alone for four days in 2013 while he was absent. No evidence confirms she visited the infamous island, but the persistent contact years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a minor for prostitution has shocked Norway.
Crown Princess Mette-Marit issued a rare public apology, stating she “deeply regrets” her “poor judgment” and “regret having had any contact with Epstein at all.” She took responsibility for not investigating his background more thoroughly, calling the association “simply embarrassing.” Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre endorsed her assessment, agreeing she showed poor judgment. The scandal compounds existing strain on the royal family, as her son Marius Borg Høiby faces an ongoing rape trial in Oslo.
These candid exchanges stand in painful contrast to the carefully curated image of royal dignity and distance from scandal. Epstein cultivated ties with global elites through charm, philanthropy, and introductions—even post-conviction—lending him undue credibility. No criminal allegations have emerged against Mette-Marit from the files.
As Norway grapples with shock and disbelief, one chilling question hangs in the air: just how close was this royal connection—and what other intimate details are still hidden in the unreleased portions? With millions of pages yet to be fully scrutinized, the Epstein files continue to unravel threads in the fabric of power.
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