Stripped of his titles, Andrew faces calls to appear before US committee over Epstein

Senior UK politicians join American panel in urging former prince to help bring justice for abused women

- Rachel Sylvester & Richard Palmer

Andrew with Queen Camilla and King Charles at Windsor on Easter Sunday in 2023.

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Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is under mounting pressure to give evidence about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein to a US congressional committee after being stripped of all his titles by the king.

Labour peer Harriet Harman, former deputy party leader, said the former prince had a responsibility to testify to help bring justice to the women who were abused. "His silence is not being neutral - it's an act of collusion," Lady Harman said. "We know he was at the very least part of the circle around a convicted child abuser treating young women and girls like property... He is either part of sustaining that structure [of abuse] or he is going to play a part in giving those young women justice."

Epstein, a convicted child sexual abuse offender, was facing trial on further sex trafficking charges when he died in his prison cell in 2019.