British Prime Minister Keir Starmer yesterday said that the former Prince Andrew should testify before a US congressional committee, following new revelations about Andrew’s links to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
New files related to Epstein published by the US justice department on Friday included emails that showed King Charles’s brother maintaining regular contact with Epstein for more than two years after he was found guilty of child sex crimes.
The files also include pictures appearing to show Andrew crouching over and touching the waist of an unidentified woman lying on the floor.
Her face was blacked out in the redacted images.
The king stripped his brother of his title of prince and evicted him from his mansion in the grounds of Windsor Castle in November, in the wake of previous revelations about his links with Epstein.
The former prince, 65, now uses the family name Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
He has denied wrongdoing in connection with Epstein and had previously denied maintaining ties with the financier after Epstein’s 2008 conviction, apart from a 2010 visit to New York to end their relationship.
He did not reply to a Reuters request for comment on the latest revelations.
Buckingham Palace declined to comment.
Starmer, speaking to reporters on the plane to Japan after a four-day visit to China, said the former prince should appear before US legislators to explain everything he knows about Epstein to help his victims.
In November, members of a US congressional committee investigating the Epstein case intensified their calls for Andrew to answer questions.
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