Hey Everyone,

Today at 5pm, I won’t be hosting my usual live video chat because I will be in transit. I am headed to Norway, to speak at Norway’s annual SKUP conference in Tonsberg, Norway’s oldest city, on the coast, about 100km from Oslo.

SKUP is the Norwegian Foundation for Investigative Journalism, so I am honored to have been invited to be a keynote speaker.

To be honest, what I am most looking forward to – apart from having lunch at the beautiful restaurant, Verdens Ende (The End Of The World) photographed above – is learning the details about the fall-out of the Epstein Files in Norway from some of the country’s top journalists.

Of all the countries in the world, you could easily make the case that Norway’s upper echelons have been hit hardest by the revelations in Epstein’s emails.

It emerged in the files that Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit continued a close friendship with Epstein for years after his conviction as a sex offender. She is mentioned over one thousand times in Epstein’s emails between 2011 and 2014. She stayed in his house in Palm Beach in 2013. And, In 2011 she emailed him: “Googled you after the previous email. Agreed, it didn’t look good :).”

She and her husband, Crown Prince Haakon, recently sat for a televised interview in which she apologized for her “poor judgment” and said she had not known of Epstein’s sex offender status. Nonetheless a Norwegian sexual health organization has severed ties with her and questions remain as to whether or not the country will allow her one day to become Queen. (Also on her plate, is the fact that her 29 year old son, Marius Borg Høiby is awaiting the verdict after the conclusion of a trial in which he was charged with 39 offenses, including four rapes, which he denies)………

Continue reading the full article on Vicky Ward Investigates.