Charles wanted to acknowledge ‘victims’ in speech to Congress including those abused by Epstein, palace says
The palace said King Charles wanted to remember victims of abuse, including those allegedly abused by Jeffrey Epstein, in a joint address to Congress.
“In both countries, it is the reality of our vibrant, diverse and free societies that gives us the collective strength, including to support the victims of some of the diseases that are tragically present in both our societies today,” the British monarch said in a speech on Capitol Hill on Tuesday afternoon.
Charles stopped short of acknowledging specific victims of crimes, including those allegedly sexually abused by Epstein, but a palace aide said: NBC News that’s what he wanted.
The king’s younger brother, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, has denied accusations that he sexually assaulted Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most prominent accusers. Giuffre died by suicide about a year ago at the age of 41.
Andrew was mentioned 88 times in Giuffre’s posthumous memoir. Nobody’s Daughter.
Giuffre first met Andrew when they went out to dinner in London, then met Epstein and his longtime partner Ghislaine Maxwell at a nightclub, she wrote in her memoirs. She was 17 at the time and Andrew was 41. She said they had sex for the first time after their night out, writing: “He was friendly enough but he still had a point; it was like he believed it was his birthright to have sex with me.”
Charles officially stripped Andrew of his title as prince last November.
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