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A American legislative committee probing pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein has sent a letter to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, once Britain’s Prince Andrew, requesting that he undergo a deposition as part of its inquiry into Epstein’s wrongdoings.

In a letter published on Thursday, a US representative, the leading Democrat on the House oversight committee, urged that King Charles III’s sibling help with its probe.

The formal request to answer questions arrives a week after Mountbatten Windsor was stripped of his HRH style and consented to surrender his rented residence in Windsor.

Files and Claims

Mountbatten Windsor’s name features in documents and travel logs secured from Epstein’s estate and disclosed by the committee. He has also been alleged by one of Epstein’s victims, the late Virginia Giuffre, of abuse.

“The committee will probe allegations of wrongdoing by Mountbatten Windsor, and will request information on Epstein’s operations, network, and accomplices based on the men’s longstanding and extensively reported friendship,” the committee said in a press release.

It demanded details from Mountbatten Windsor on specifics of his association with Epstein, who died by suicide in a New York prison cell in 2019. Andrew has repeatedly strongly denied any misconduct.

Content of the Communication

“It has been widely reported that your association with Mr Epstein started in 1999 and that you stayed connected through and after his 2008 sentencing for trafficking underage girls for commercial sex acts,” the letter said.

It added: “It has also been alleged that you journeyed with Epstein to his New York home, the Queen’s residence at Balmoral, and to Mr Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands, where you have been accused of harming young girls. This strong bond with Mr Epstein, combined with the newly disclosed 2011 email exchange in which you wrote to him ‘we are in this together’, further bolsters our suspicion that you may have important details about the offenses committed by Mr Epstein and his partners in crime.”

A announcement regarding the letter said it was co-signed by 13 other Democrats on the committee and demands a answer by 20 November.

Earlier Remarks and Collaboration

The letter comes a week after another Democrat on the committee told: “Andrew should be called to testify before the oversight committee. The people should be able to know who was harming women and young girls alongside Epstein.”

However, the lawmaker does not have the ability to subpoena the ex-royal and Congress itself cannot force statements from a foreign national.

In 2020, US agencies said that Mountbatten Windsor did not cooperate to US requests for an meeting. The then US attorney for the southern district of New York said that lawyers and the FBI had approached Andrew’s lawyers to inquire on his earlier promise that he was “prepared to help any appropriate law enforcement agency”.

“It’s fair for people to know whether Prince Andrew has fulfilled with that pledge,” the attorney said, adding that to date he had “offered zero cooperation”.

Appeals for Justice

The congressman said in a announcement that “wealthy and influential men have escaped justice for far too long. Now, one-time Prince Andrew has the option to tell the truth and secure redress for the victims. Oversight Democrats will not cease pushing for answerability and openness for victims of Epstein and his group of accomplices.”

Another endorser, a Virginia Democrat, said that after listening to testimony to the committee from Epstein’s victims, as well as news accounts of disclosed papers, “it is vital that Andrew cooperates with the current inquiry. If he is blameless, then he can prove his innocence.”

The lawmaker stated further: “And if not, our examination will demonstrate that, and the survivors will receive belated accountability. The royal household’s actions stripping Andrew of his styles show there is additional to this situation.”

The letter came on the same day the British king publicly revoked Mountbatten Windsor of his royal title. Charles III officially made the adjustment – which had been declared a week ago – by issuing a “royal decree” which the monarch’s office published in the Gazette, the UK’s official public record.