<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Democrats on a powerful US House of Representatives panel have written to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor formally calling on him to submit to questioning in its probe into paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The request came just hours after an even more consequential document was issued: a Letters Patent signed by King Charles stripping his brother of the titles of prince and "his royal highness".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In their letter, Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said Mountbatten Windsor's close relationship with Epstein – coupled </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/one-scandal-too-many-forces-uk-monarchy-to-sideline-prince-andrew-after-years-of-tabloid-fodder/84d652c0-487e-433c-b4a9-d7fe1a1d79b6"><span>with a recently leaked email between the pair</span></a><span> – "confirms our suspicion that you may have valuable information about the crimes committed by Mr Epstein and his co-conspirators".</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/danny-zayat-found-guilty-murder-ex-partner-tatiana-dokhotaru-sydney/8dc158e5-f551-42a9-9c3b-9d060ec29fb7"><strong><span>'He's trying to kill me': Triple 0 call released after murder verdict</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Ranking member Robert Garcia and his colleagues also referenced the "appalling allegations" made by Australian-based Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre in her posthumous memoir, flight records showing Mountbatten Windsor in Epstein's plane from 1999 to 2006 and "identified financial records containing notations such as 'massage for Andrew'".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>They called on Mountbatten Windsor to make himself available for a transcribed interview with the committee and provide insight into the crimes of Epstein's co-conspirators. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It has been publicly reported that your friendship with Mr Epstein began in 1999 and that you remained close through and after his 2008 conviction for procuring minors for prostitution," the politicians wrote.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-update-house-oversight-committee-democrats-request-interview-with-former-prince/c71ce547-4a38-4ddd-aebc-796486d965ad" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"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."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Mountbatten Windsor has not commented but has consistently denied the allegations.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In 2022, he reached an out-of-court settlement with Giuffre after she filed a civil suit against him in New York.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/parking-fine-queensland-logan-naturestrip/9d16bbce-4259-4385-8869-b2b6ba080d7f"><strong><span>Man's shock after parking on lawn at mate's house</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>While he didn't admit wrongdoing, Mountbatten Windsor did acknowledge Giuffre's suffering as a victim of sex trafficking.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The former prince was given until November 20 to respond.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"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. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Oversight Democrats will not stop fighting for accountability and transparency for survivors of Epstein and his gang of co-conspirators."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-family-reunited-emergency-workers/2094b941-ea5b-4fcf-afa6-22f3582feb5e" rel="" target="" title=""><strong><span>Mum discharged from hospital hour before home gym birth</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>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.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>No one from the Republican majority signed the letter and they were yet to comment this morning. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>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.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>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.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>That move was made official on Thursday (early Friday AEDT).</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"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 </span><em><span>The Gazette</span></em><span> – the UK's official public record – said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Letters Patent is a centuries-old type of document used by monarchs to bestow — and remove — appointments or titles.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The King's decision was welcomed by the family of Giuffre, who died by suicide in April at the age of 41. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>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. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Epstein was found dead in a New York City jail cell in 2019 in what investigators called a suicide.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>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.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><span>- Reported with Associated Press.</span></em></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f"><em><strong><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></strong></em></a><em><strong><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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