Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been urged by the UK government to travel to the United States to answer questions about his “long-standing friendship” with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Communities secretary Steve Reed told LBC Radio on Friday (07.11.25) the former prince should assist a congressional inquiry examining Epstein’s network after the ex-Duke of York was this week stripped of his royal titles by King Charles over his links to the late paedophile financier.
Mr Reed said: “Any individual who can help with an investigation of that gravity should go and help if they can. He’s a private individual, it’s up to him, but I think people should do what they can to try to help.”
The remarks come after members of the US House Oversight Committee wrote to Andrew, 65, requesting a “transcribed interview” as part of their investigation into Epstein’s sex trafficking operations.
The committee said it had discovered “financial records containing notations such as ‘massage for Andrew’ that raise serious questions”.
In the letter, signed by 16 members of Congress and sent on Thursday (06.11.25), the committee said: “We write to seek your co-operation in the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operations.
“The committee is seeking to uncover the identities of Mr Epstein’s co-conspirators and enablers and to understand the full extent of his criminal operations.
“Well-documented allegations against you, along with your long-standing friendship with Mr Epstein, indicate that you may possess knowledge of his activities relevant to our investigation. In the interest of justice for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, we request that you co-operate with the committee’s investigation by sitting for a transcribed interview with the Committee.”
Prime minister Keir Starmer echoed the view Andrew should consider assisting the inquiry.
Speaking to broadcasters during the Cop30 summit in Brazil, he said: “Well, in the end, it’s a matter for him personally. My view, and this is not about the individual case, more broadly, is that anybody who has relevant information should always be willing to give it to whatever inquiries need that information.
“But the individual decision is a matter for him.”
The congressional request followed King Charles’ decision to strip his brother of his HRH style and prince title, effectively ending Andrew’s public role.
The move came after the release of the memoir Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide 41 after she accused Andrew of having sex with her when she was 17 and being trafficked by Epstein and his madam and fixer Ghislaine Maxwell.
Andrew has consistently denied all allegations made against him.
