British Prime Minister Keir Starmer just threw former Prince Andrew under the bus—and honestly, it’s about time someone in power did.
Starmer publicly called for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (yes, that’s his official name now that he’s been stripped of his royal titles) to testify before the U.S. Congress about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to NBC News.
“You can’t be victim-centered if you’re not prepared to do that,” Starmer told reporters Saturday. “Epstein’s victims have to be the first priority.”
WHAT’S GOING ON: The pressure comes after the Justice Department dropped a massive trove of Epstein files on Friday—over 3.5 million pages, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images. Among them: photos appearing to show the former prince kneeling over an unidentified woman whose face is redacted. In two images, he’s touching the fully-clothed person on her stomach.
Meanwhile, a woman has separately alleged through her lawyer that Epstein sent her to the U.K. in 2010 for a sexual encounter with Mountbatten-Windsor. She was in her 20s at the time. An email exchange from that same year also suggests Epstein invited the then-prince to have dinner with a 26-year-old woman—two years after Epstein had already pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor.
OF COURSE: Mountbatten-Windsor has “vigorously” denied any wrongdoing connected to Epstein and his accomplice, convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. He’s never been criminally charged. A palace spokesman (who no longer speaks for him on press matters) offered no additional comment, noting only that he “continues to deny the allegations against him.”
He also didn’t respond to requests for comment about the new allegations.
THE DETAILS: King Charles stripped his younger brother of his royal titles back in November amid growing pressure on the palace, and he’s been told to vacate the 30-room mansion where he’d lived for over two decades. The move came after the posthumous publication of Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre’s memoir, which detailed her allegations that Mountbatten-Windsor had sex with her on multiple occasions when she was underage.
He reached a legal settlement with Giuffre for an undisclosed amount in 2022 after she filed a civil case accusing him of sexually assaulting her at 17. He repeatedly denied having met her and even claimed a photograph of the two of them wasn’t real.
Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025.
WHY IT MATTERS: For years, the wealthy and powerful men in Epstein’s orbit have faced minimal accountability while survivors have been left to carry the burden of seeking justice. Starmer’s public pressure represents a shift—the head of a major U.S. ally explicitly saying the quiet part out loud: if you have information, you share it. Period.
Whether Congress actually gets Mountbatten-Windsor in a witness chair remains to be seen. But the walls are clearly closing in on a man who once thought royal blood would shield him forever.