Andrew Should Testify Before Congress Over Epstein Friendship, Says Nancy Pelosi
The former House Speaker made her position clear at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party — and says everyone who has been named owes survivors answers.
Nancy Pelosi is the latest high-profile figure calling on the former Duke of York to testify before Congress over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein — and she says everyone named deserves to be heard. Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, used her appearance at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 15 to make her position on the matter unambiguous. Speaking to The Times, the 85-year-old politician said she believes Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — the former Duke of York, now 66 — has an obligation to appear before the U.S Congress and address his ties to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
For survivors still waiting for accountability, she suggested that anything less falls short. "My understanding from the committee and my knowledge of the Congress is that we have promised the survivors that we would hear from everyone, and so that really means everyone," Pelosi said.
She acknowledged the diplomatic complexity of compelling a foreign national to testify, but did not let it soften her stance on the issue. "I don't know what the regulations are from one country to another. But I think that many people who have been named, including the president of the United States, owe us answers so that we can be a comfort to the survivors and have some justice," she said.
She added, "He should give answers." Pelosi is far from alone in that view. Mountbatten-Windsor has faced similar calls from an unusually broad coalition of political figures — among them U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Vice President J.D. Vance.
Those sentiments are also shared by Congressman Ro Khanna, a senior Democrat and a key member of the congressional committee actively examining the Epstein case. Khanna was a driving force behind the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the legislation that ultimately led to the public release of thousands of documents linked to the disgraced financier.
Speaking to Sky News earlier, Khanna had warned that the institution is already struggling to find its footing. "I think this is the most vulnerable the British monarchy has ever been," he said. "They ought to ask the King and Queen questions, and maybe this will be the end of the monarchy." For Khanna, the issue has moved well beyond Mountbatten-Windsor's personal conduct. The question of what King Charles may have known — and when — is now very much on the table. "If they don't have answers, if they're implicated in the Epstein case, it's not a good look for the British monarchy," he warned. "The King has to answer what he knew, what he knew about Andrew, and just stripping Andrew of a title is not enough."
He dismissed the loss of royal status as a wholly inadequate response to allegations of this gravity. "Andrew needs to come before our committee and start answering questions," he said. "I don't think the appropriate punishment is that you no longer get to be a prince. There's got to be more than that."
