🔗 Share this article Congressional Panel Requests Questioning with Prince Andrew in Jeffrey Epstein Investigation A US congressional body investigating pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein has reached out to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly Britain’s Prince Andrew, asking that he submit to an interview as part of its investigation into Epstein’s wrongdoings. In a communication made public on Thursday, a lawmaker, the top Democrat on the House oversight panel, asked that King Charles III’s brother assist with its investigation. The written appeal to provide testimony arrives a week after Mountbatten Windsor was stripped of his princely title and consented to surrender his rented residence in Windsor. Files and Allegations Mountbatten Windsor’s name is listed in papers and flight logs obtained from Epstein’s estate and made public by the committee. He has also been accused by one of Epstein’s survivors, the late Virginia Giuffre, of sexual assault. “The panel will probe claims of misconduct by Mountbatten Windsor, and will request data on Epstein’s network, network, and associates based on the men’s enduring and extensively reported friendship,” the committee said in a announcement. It requested information from Mountbatten Windsor on particulars of his association with Epstein, who died by suicide in a New York detention facility in 2019. Andrew has consistently vehemently rejected any wrongdoing. Content of the Request “It has been documented that your relationship with Mr Epstein commenced in 1999 and that you continued associating through and after his 2008 sentencing for procuring minors for commercial sex acts,” the letter said. It stated further: “It has also been claimed that you went with Epstein to his New York home, the Queen’s residence at Balmoral, and to Mr Epstein’s secluded island in the US Virgin Islands, where you have been charged of abusing minors. This close relationship with Mr Epstein, coupled with the freshly uncovered 2011 digital communication in which you wrote to him ‘we are in this together’, further supports our suspicion that you may have valuable information about the crimes committed by Mr Epstein and his co-conspirators.” A statement regarding the letter said it was supported by 13 other Democrats on the committee and asks a answer by 20 November. Past Statements and Assistance The letter follows a week after another Democrat on the committee told: “Andrew should be summoned to appear before the committee. The citizens has the right to know who was harming women and young girls alongside Epstein.” However, the lawmaker does not hold the power to subpoena the ex-royal and Congress itself cannot compel testimony from a foreign national. In 2020, US agencies said that Mountbatten Windsor neglected to respond to US requests for an meeting. The then US attorney for the southern district of New York said that authorities and the FBI had reached out to Andrew’s lawyers to check on his public commitment that he was “ready to help any suitable law enforcement agency”. “It’s fair for people to know whether Prince Andrew has followed through with that public commitment,” the attorney said, adding that to date he had “offered no cooperation”. Calls for Justice The representative said in a announcement that “affluent and powerful men have evaded justice for far too long. Now, former Prince Andrew has the opportunity to tell the truth and deliver justice for the survivors. Oversight Democrats will not stop advocating for responsibility and openness for those affected of Epstein and his gang of accomplices.” Another supporter, a Virginia Democrat, said that after receiving evidence to the committee from Epstein’s survivors, as well as media coverage of released files, “it is vital that Andrew works together with the current inquiry. If he is blameless, then he can prove his innocence.” The lawmaker added: “And if not, our investigation will show that, and the survivors will receive long overdue justice. The Royal Family’s actions taking away Andrew of his titles show there is more to this case.” The letter came on the same day the British king formally stripped Mountbatten Windsor of his HRH style. Charles III publicly made the adjustment – which had been revealed a week ago – by issuing a “royal decree” which the crown office released in the Gazette, the UK’s government journal.