Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor accused of ‘hiding’ from US Congress as deadline looms | Royal | News
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is “hiding” from a US government committee’s request to question him, a congressman has said. The disgraced brother of King Charles, who saw all his titles and honors undermined by the king, has been asked to appear before the House Oversight Committee for a “written interview” in connection with his “longstanding friendship” with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
In a letter sent by the committee to Andrew 10 days ago and signed by 16 members of Congress, he was requested to respond by this Thursday. Suhas Subramanyam, one of the committee’s Democratic members, told The Guardian that the former duke “has been hiding from us, and I think he will continue to hide from people who are doing meaningful research on this issue.”
“It seems like every time we find more evidence, Prince Andrew appears in the documents,” he added.
“And I think if he’s hoping that by ignoring us and staying silent that the story will end, he’ll be very disappointed as we continue to do this next year and beyond.”
US President Donald Trump He walked back his earlier promise to oppose the proposal, saying House Republicans should vote to release files on the Epstein case.
“We have nothing to hide and it is time to give up on this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Crazies to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party,” Mr. Trump said on social media on Sunday.
Democrats and some Republicans are pushing for a measure that would force the U.S. Justice Department to release more documents related to the case.
All files and communications related to Epstein, as well as information about the investigation into his suicide in prison in 2019, may also be made public.
The oversight committee in the House of Representatives asked Andrew to sit for testimony as part of its investigation into Epstein and the government’s handling of the case.
The committee’s letter said it had identified “financial records containing notes such as ‘Massage for Andrew’ that raise serious questions.”
They called on her to tell them what she knew about the convicted sex trafficker’s actions.
Andrew, who was stripped of his titles as prince and Duke of York earlier this month, vehemently denies any wrongdoing.
He had previously agreed to stop using his titles but had expected to remain a prince and keep his dukedom before the publication of the memoirs of the late Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of sexually abusing her as a teenager. He denies the accusation.
Damaging newspaper allegations include that he tried to get the Metropolitan Police to dig up dirt for a smear campaign against Ms Giuffre.
The force has previously said it was looking into the reports after The Mail On Sunday newspaper alleged Ms Giuffre passed her date of birth and social security number to her taxpayer-funded bodyguard in 2011 and asked him to investigate.
