Intensifying scrutiny surrounds Andrew Mountbatten Windsor as a prominent U.S. Congressional committee urges him to testify regarding his association with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. There are growing demands for authorities to launch a renewed investigation into the former prince’s activities.

At least four influential members of the House Oversight Committee have called upon Andrew to fully disclose his knowledge about Epstein’s criminal behavior.

Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police are examining claims that Andrew, now 65, allegedly instructed a member of his security detail to gather compromising information on Virginia Giuffre, who has accused him of sexual misconduct. A senior ex-prosecutor is also advocating for a comprehensive inquiry into his conduct.

In a significant move, the King has revoked Andrew’s princely title and announced his impending relocation from the Royal Lodge in Windsor.

The Palace issued a statement confirming that Andrew will be officially deprived of all his titles and privileges. He is expected to relocate to a residence within the King’s private Sandringham estate in Norfolk. His former wife, Sarah Ferguson, aged 66, plans to arrange her own housing, with some reports suggesting she might even relocate abroad.

The move follows a series of damaging revelations about the former couple’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and accusations from Ms Giuffre that she was trafficked and forced to have sex with the King’s brother as a teenager. 

Andrew continues to deny any wrongdoing.

Democrat Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi told BBC Newsnight that he wants Andrew to give evidence before Congress, saying: ‘I would go so far as to subpoena him.’

He added: ‘Now, enforcing the subpoenas is not easy for somebody who’s on foreign soil.

‘However, if Andrew wishes to come to the United States or he’s here, then he’s subject to the jurisdiction of the US Congress, and I would expect him to testify.’

He delivered a message to Andrew: ‘Come clean. Come before the US Congress, voluntarily testify. Don’t wait for a subpoena. Come and testify and tell us what you know.

‘At the end of the day, we want to know exactly what happened, not just to give justice to the survivors, but to prevent this from ever happening again.’

Mr Krishnamoorthi’s calls were mirrored by fellow Democrat Stephen Lynch, who told the BBC that Andrew’s testimony ‘might be helpful in getting justice for these survivors’.

Mr Lynch added that while the House Oversight Committee was unable to subpoena Andrew ‘as the situation stands’, he should consider testifying voluntarily.

Congressman Suhas Subramanyam told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme today: ‘I would like for him to come to our committee and tell us everything he knows about Jeffrey Epstein and the crimes that were committed.

‘I think this would be a great way for Andrew to clear his name.

‘It would be a great way for us to continue our pursuit of justice for the victims, and frankly, Andrew’s name has come up many times from the victims, and so he clearly has knowledge of what happened, and we just want him to come forward and tell us what he knows.’

Victim of sex offender Epstein Elizabeth Stein told the BBC today that the removal of Andrew’s privileges is ‘long overdue’ as she echoed calls for Andrew to speak before the committee.

She said: ‘This is long overdue. And we are all glad to see some accountability finally happening, but even though Andrew denies the allegations that have been leveraged against him I think that a lot of us are curious as to why he is unwilling to be questioned about his involvement with Epstein. 

‘If he has nothing to hide then why is he hiding? I think a good start would be for him to give the authorities any information that he has about Epstein.

‘We know that he had a longstanding friendship with Epstein and that he was in his social circle. 

‘So he may have seen things during his involvement with Epstein that he could speak to and I think that it’s a time really when we want to see Andrew take some initiative.’

A lawyer representing victims of Epstein, Spencer Kuvin, also called for Andrew to testify.

He told BBC News: ‘We need to hear his story and hear what he is saying about what occurred, but also he could testify about other potential co-conspirators that he saw that may have been present at the mansions here in the States that were doing inappropriate activities.

‘So on both fronts, both on behalf of other victims, but potentially on behalf of himself, we would like Andrew to come here and testify.’

He added of the removal of Andrew’s titles: ‘The victims are very glad that the crown is taking this action, that the King has recognised the seriousness of this situation, and his statement the other day was appreciated by the victims.’

In the UK Nazir Afzal, the ex-Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England, today said there needed to be ‘full transparency’ into whether Andrew asked one of his bodyguards to investigate his accuser.

The Mail revealed last month that the former prince contacted a taxpayer funded member of his Met Police protection team in 2011 to pass on Ms Giuffre’s date of birth and social security number, asking for her to be investigated.

He then astonishingly told Ed Perkins, the late Queen’s deputy press secretary, what he had done. It is not suggested that the officer complied with the prince’s request.

In response to the prince’s email, Mr Perkins wrote ‘Indeed Sir. All received. Awaiting their response now. Lawyers primed’.

Mr Afzal said the possibility ‘a senior figure used police resources to try to allegedly smear an accuser raises issues of abuse of power and policing resources’ and said that no-one should be above the law.

He told Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘The Met have said that they will investigate this independently but there has to be full transparency about this.

‘I can’t ask for someone’s social security number – there is no reason why he should be able to do that and that means that somebody then acted in a way they shouldn’t be able to do and carried out some kind of misconduct in public office.

‘We need public clarity. We need to ensure that nobody has special or privileged status. That investigation needs to go forward and I am sure it will and if any misuse of police assets has taken place – there needs to be accountability.’

Mr Afzal also backed a call for the Met to take another look at Andrew’s role in the abuse of Epstein’s victims both as an alleged suspect and a witness.

He told the BBC that Andrew should co-operate with US authorities over what he knows about Epstein and he would do so ‘if he wished to truly clear his name’. 

His comments came as the IOPC police watchdog called on the Met to ask whether there are any matters it should now be looking into having failed to previously investigate Andrew. 

A spokesperson for the Met Police said it was first made aware of allegations around non-recent trafficking for sexual exploitation in 2015 which ‘related to events outside the UK and an allegation of trafficking to central London in March 2001’.

They added that following legal advice, ‘it was clear that any investigation into human trafficking would be largely focused on activities and relationships outside the UK’, so officers concluded that ‘other jurisdictions and organisations were better placed to pursue the specific allegations’.

And in November 2016, a decision was made that this matter would not proceed to a full criminal investigation, the force said.

Meanwhile, the eyes of the world continue to be fixed on Royal Lodge after the news Andrew will move from his 30-room mansion in Windsor to private accommodation in Sandringham, Norfolk.

On Saturday morning a car bearing a private numberplate linked to the former prince was seen leaving the grounds of Windsor Great Park.

It has been claimed Andrew is set to get a six-figure payout and an annual payment as part of his ‘relocation settlement’ after being forced out of the Royal Lodge.

Former prince Andrew will receive the one-off payment to cover his move, followed by the regular stipend, it was reported.

The annual payment privately funded by the King would be worth several times his £20,000-a-year navy pension, the paper adds.

The report of the payout comes as claims suggest that the decision to strip Andrew of his honours and titles was influenced by the Queen’s concerns about his impact on her work with sex abuse victims.

The Queen has supported survivors of sex attacks and domestic abuse for years and it was recently revealed in a new book that she herself fought off a man who groped her on a train when she was a teenager.

Andrew reportedly agreed to leave Windsor after his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson made it clear that she would be leaving the property.

She will not be moving to Sandringham and will have to find her own property to live in.

Earlier in October, it was announced Andrew had agreed to stop using titles including as Duke of York but would remain a prince.

It came ahead of the publication of a memoir of the late Virginia Giuffre, who alleged she was forced to have sex with Andrew three times when she was a teenager.

Andrew reached an out-of-court settlement with Ms Giuffre in 2022, said to be worth £12 million, thought to have been funded by the late Queen Elizabeth II. The settlement did not involve the former prince admitting any wrongdoing.  

Ms Giuffre took her own life earlier this year, aged 41. 

After another damaging for Andrew and an incident in which the King was heckled by a protester asking him about his brother’s links with Epstein on a visit to Lichfield Cathedral on Monday, the monarch went one step further.

Elsewhere the Public Accounts Committee has already confirmed it is writing to the Crown Estate, effectively Andrew’s landlord, and the Treasury asking for further information about the prince’s lease which caused a public outcry when it emerged he was paying a ‘peppercorn’ rent.

The former duke had a ‘cast-iron’ lease for his Royal Lodge home and only after negotiations with the King’s representatives did he agree to serve formal notice on Thursday to surrender the lease, which had more than 50 years left to run. 

Andrew’s name has been struck from the official roll of the peerage which means his Duke of York title will no longer be used officially.

In the next few days, the King is expected to send to the Lord Chancellor David Lammy the royal warrant, affecting the dukedom, and letters patent which will formally remove Andrew’s entitlement to use the title prince and HRH style.

On Thursday, Buckingham Palace said in an unprecedented statement that ‘censures are deemed necessary’.

The palace added: ‘His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the style, titles and honours of Prince Andrew.

‘Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. His lease on Royal Lodge has, to date, provided him with legal protection to continue in residence.

‘Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation.

‘These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.

‘Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.’