British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said that Prince Andrew should testify before a U.S. congressional committee investigating the crimes of disgraced financier
Jeffrey Epstein, following the release of new documents detailing Andrew’s continued contact with Epstein after his conviction.
Speaking to reporters on Saturday while traveling to Japan after a four-day visit to China, Starmer said anyone with relevant information about Epstein’s activities has a responsibility to cooperate fully with investigators — especially in the interests of victims.
“Anybody who has got information should be prepared to share that information in whatever form they are asked to do that,” Starmer said. “You can’t be victim-centred if you’re not prepared to do that.”
The comments came a day after the U.S. Department of Justice published newly unsealed Epstein-related files. Among them were emails indicating that Andrew, the younger brother of King Charles III, remained in regular contact with Epstein for more than two years after the financier was convicted in 2008 of soliciting sex from a minor.
The documents also included redacted photographs that appear to show Andrew crouching over and touching the waist of an unidentified woman lying on the floor. The woman’s face was obscured in the released images.
Prince Andrew, now 65, has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing connected to Epstein. He has also previously denied maintaining a relationship with Epstein after the 2008 conviction, aside from a widely reported 2010 visit to New York, which he said was intended to formally cut ties.
In November, amid mounting scrutiny over his association with Epstein, King Charles stripped Andrew of his royal title and removed him from his residence on the Windsor Castle estate. Andrew now uses the name Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and no longer performs any public royal duties.
Andrew did not respond to a request for comment on the latest revelations, while Buckingham Palace declined to comment.
Meanwhile, pressure has been growing in Washington. In November, members of a U.S. congressional committee investigating the Epstein case renewed calls for Andrew to appear before lawmakers and answer questions about his relationship with the late financier.
Epstein died by suicide in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. His death, and the powerful figures linked to him, continue to fuel public outrage and demands for accountability on both sides of the Atlantic. Photo by Carfax2, Wikimedia commons.