Democrats from a key US House committee have formally reached out to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, urging him to partake in their investigation into the activities of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

This appeal was issued shortly after a significant royal decree: King Charles officially revoked his brother’s status as prince and the use of “his royal highness” through a Letters Patent.

Committee member Robert Garcia and his team pointed to the serious allegations by Virginia Giuffre, an Australian resident who accused Epstein in her memoir. They cited flight logs indicating Mountbatten Windsor’s presence on Epstein’s aircraft from 1999 to 2006, along with financial records noting entries like “massage for Andrew.”

The committee requested that Mountbatten Windsor participate in a recorded interview to help shed light on Epstein’s network and their illicit activities.

“Reports indicate your association with Mr. Epstein began in 1999, and you maintained ties even after his 2008 conviction for engaging minors in prostitution,” the lawmakers stated.

“It has also been reported that you travelled with Epstein to his New York residence, the Queen’s residence at Balmoral, and to Mr Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands, where you have been accused of abusing minors.”

Mountbatten Windsor has not commented but has consistently denied the allegations.

In 2022, he reached an out-of-court settlement with Giuffre after she filed a civil suit against him in New York.

While he didn’t admit wrongdoing, Mountbatten Windsor did acknowledge Giuffre’s suffering as a victim of sex trafficking.

The former prince was given until November 20 to respond.

“Rich and powerful men have evaded justice for far too long. Now, former Prince Mountbatten Windsor has the opportunity to come clean and provide justice for the survivors,” Garcia said, in a statement. 

“Oversight Democrats will not stop fighting for accountability and transparency for survivors of Epstein and his gang of co-conspirators.”

The committee chair has strong subpoena powers but they don’t belong to Garcia on his own, and would be unlikely to apply to a foreign national.

No one from the Republican majority signed the letter and they were yet to comment this morning. 

The King announced on October 31 that he was removing his brother’s titles and evicting him from his royal residence over his relationship with convicted sex offender Epstein.

Demand had been growing on the palace to oust the 65-year-old prince from his Royal Lodge home over new revelations about his friendship with Epstein and renewed attention on sexual abuse allegations by Giuffre.

That move was made official on Thursday (early Friday AEDT).

“THE KING has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 3 November 2025 to declare that Mountbatten Windsor Mountbatten Windsor shall no longer be entitled to hold and enjoy the style, title or attribute of ‘Royal Highness’ and the titular dignity of ‘Prince’,” an announcement published Wednesday in The Gazette – the UK’s official public record – said.

The Letters Patent is a centuries-old type of document used by monarchs to bestow — and remove — appointments or titles.

The King’s decision was welcomed by the family of Giuffre, who died by suicide in April at the age of 41.

She said that in the early 2000s, when she was a teenager, she was caught up in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring and exploited by Mountbatten Windsor and other influential men. 

Epstein was found dead in a New York City jail cell in 2019 in what investigators called a suicide.

Mountbatten Windsor is moving from Royal Lodge, the 30-room mansion near Windsor Castle where he has lived for more than 20 years, into a more remote home funded by his brother on the King’s 8100-hectare Sandringham Estate in eastern England.

– Reported with Associated Press.