Epstein Survivors to Call for Ex-Prince Andrew's Testimony on King's Visit

Jeffrey Epstein survivors and their families will call for a meeting with King Charles III and for the king to compel his brother, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, to testify before Congress on the biggest day of the state visit to the U.S.

Mountbatten-Windsor was accused by American Virginia Giuffre of sexually assaulting her in 2001 when she said she was a 17-year-old sex trafficking victim of Epstein. Mountbatten Windsor has denied the allegations and settled a civil lawsuit brought by Giuffre out of court in 2022 without admitting liability.

Rina Oh is among the survivors staging a protest outside the White House on Tuesday, the same day the king will attend a banquet there as part of an official state visit marking 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Why It Matters

Epstein survivors have been trying to arrange a meeting with the king to discuss their experiences and the role Mountbatten-Windsor could play in testifying before Congress.

Palace insiders say a meeting is not possible due to ongoing investigations by Britain’s Thames Valley Police into Mountbatten-Windsor, who was arrested in February following reports he leaked confidential government trade reports to Epstein. He has never been charged, and the investigation continues. He has always denied Epstein-related wrongdoing.

The Metropolitan Police is separately investigating similar allegations against former British ambassador to America Peter Mandelson, who also denies wrongdoing.

King Charles’ State Visit Met by Jeffrey Epstein Survivors’ Protest

Oh told Newsweek she would like King Charles and Queen Camilla to hear the stories of survivors.

“One thing that’s so important for survivors is validation; it helps us heal,” she said.

“But we also are asking for accountability and action. I think he should send Air Force One to go and bring Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson to the United States to give testimony about what they saw.”

The House Oversight Committee of Congress has formally written to Mountbatten-Windsor requesting his testimony, which has so far not been forthcoming.

Giuffre first publicly described being flown to Britain by Epstein to meet Andrew in 2011, but pressure reached a fever pitch in October after the committee released a trove of emails and documents from Epstein’s estate. More details emerged in February after the release of the Department of Justice’s so-called Epstein files.

Among the new revelations were an email showing Mountbatten-Windsor asked Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend, to find him “inappropriate friends,” and another in which the royal told Epstein, “we’ll play some more soon,” days after Giuffre’s first newspaper interview was published.

“They don’t need to incriminate themselves,” Oh said, “but they spent a lot of time with Jeffrey Epstein. They are named in those files, and we want some answers because a lot of horrible things happened to a lot of these girls, and I know their stories. And we need to understand what roles everyone played, even if they name other people’s names.

“I want the king to show true leadership and to be remembered as the king who did the right thing. We would so thank him. It’s a slap in the face if he decides not to even acknowledge us.”

Why Buckingham Palace Did Not Arrange to Meet Epstein Survivors

A palace source told Newsweek recently that it would be in everyone’s best interests not to hold the meeting, out of concern that it could prejudice the outcome of any court proceedings that might be brought in the United Kingdom.

“It’s not that Their Majesties will not meet them, it’s that they cannot,” the source said. “There is genuine jeopardy that anything that Their Majesties do or say on a State Visit will indicate a view on the matter and might prejudice the police action under way and therefore the result.”

Britain has far stricter rules than the United States on what can be said publicly once an arrest has been made and until the conclusion of any investigation or court proceedings. Prosecution can potentially be thrown out if it is successfully argued that the defendant had been denied the right to a free trial, though it is slightly unclear whether a meeting between the king and survivors prior to charges being brought would meet that high bar.

Rina Oh’s Story

Oh said she was abused after being introduced to Epstein in 2000.

“I was abused non-stop for two years. I was lured in with the false pretense that Jeffrey Epstein was going to pay for a scholarship for me to go to art school,” she told Newsweek.

“Unfortunately, when I was at that age, when I was 21 years old, I didn’t have permanent residency status here in the United States, where I grew up. It took me quite a long time to get that.

“I accepted his offer, not knowing that it was going to lead to two years of abuse. And the serial predator is very good at doing what he did.”

Oh said “it would begin with a sit-down lecture where he was my tutor or teacher, and I was his student,” but “it always led to the massage room,” where he would then abuse her.

She said survivors like her do not want their experiences to be forgotten among the fevered debates around the diplomatic backdrop to the visit, including the war in Iran and strained relations between U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

“We just want to be heard and acknowledged because we are living through this nightmare every single day of our lives. Most of us suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder,” Oh said.

“The general public may not understand if they do not have that condition, but when we are experiencing, or when I specifically experience an episode, I literally relive the trauma and the incident in real time, and it can go on for weeks or months sometimes,” she said.

“I would like for the king to acknowledge and validate who we are and what we’ve gone through instead of ignoring that this even happened, I feel that it’s erasure of this trauma, it’s erasure of a global scandal that will never go away.”

When and Where the Protest is Happening

The protest is planned for Lafayette Square, just outside the White House, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday morning.

That is the same day the king is due to attend a White House State Banquet and also give a speech to a joint session of Congress, making it the biggest and most substantive day of the U.S. visit.

Charles and Camilla were due to arrive on Monday afternoon to meet the Trumps at the White House for a private tea before a garden party later in the day.

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This story was originally published April 27, 2026 at 3:31 PM.