Prince Andrew Faces US Invite, UK Scrutiny

Members of the U.S. House Oversight Committee, including Reps. Stephen Lynch and Suhas Subramanyam, said they will invite Prince Andrew to voluntarily testify in their probe of Jeffrey Epstein and the recently released “Epstein Files,” though he cannot be legally subpoenaed as a U.K. citizen. The committee has interviewed multiple survivors, subpoenaed Department of Justice records related to Epstein, and is reviewing allegations that Andrew sought information on Virginia Giuffre from his security detail in 2011. The invitation follows revelations in Giuffre’s posthumous memoir alleging sexual encounters with Andrew when she was 17–18 and documents such as flight logs linking Epstein with high‑profile figures. In the U.K., Andrew has relinquished many royal titles and royal experts and palace sources say the drawn-out scandal is harming King Charles and may force Andrew to leave Royal Lodge. Backbench MPs and campaigners are pressing for parliamentary scrutiny — including a Commons debate and a review of the Royal Lodge lease — though the government has so far resisted allocating time for such debates. Andrew continues to deny wrongdoing, and mounting pressure from both Parliament and U.S. investigators keeps him at the center of the international inquiry.