California Democrat Ro Khanna expressed dissatisfaction with King Charles for not addressing the issue of Jeffrey Epstein during his recent speech to the US Congress. Epstein, who was a convicted pedophile before his death, was not mentioned, leaving Khanna disappointed.

“It’s very disappointing,” Khanna remarked, “especially after the British Ambassador assured me the King would discuss the survivors and the issue of sex trafficking. By not acknowledging the harm caused by his brother, the King missed a crucial moment to address what is essentially a moral failure and a sign of elite impunity that continues to insult survivors.”

In a statement given exclusively to the Daily Mail, Khanna further criticized the omission, saying it showed a lack of respect for survivors like Sky and Amanda Roberts, who are related to Virginia Giuffre. Khanna had recently held a roundtable discussion with them.

“The British Ambassador had assured me that the King would at least recognize the survivors of Epstein and other victims of sex trafficking in his speech,” Khanna added. “This oversight is a moral failure and reflects an elite impunity that people across the globe are tired of.”

Republican Nancy Mace also commented on the matter, telling the Daily Mail, “I guess the King didn’t want to talk about Epstein,” when asked for her thoughts on the speech.

Khanna has been actively engaging with Epstein’s victims, having met with them on several occasions, including shortly before the King’s address on Tuesday.

Sky Roberts, brother of one of Epstein’s most infamous victims Virginia Giuffre, her sister-in-law Amanda Roberts, and fellow Epstein survivor Dani Bensky attended a roundtable discussion with survivors of Epstein and their families on Capitol Hill ahead of Tuesday’s Joint Session of Congress.

EXCLUSIVE: Democratic Representative Ro Khanna of California speaks to Daily Mail at his office in Washington, DC

Britain’s King Charles III addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, 28 April 2026

This March 28, 2017, photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein

Dani Bensky, a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein, Virginia Giuffre’s sister-in-law Amanda Roberts, and Giuffre’s brother Sky Roberts attend a roundtable discussion with survivors of Epstein and their families, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 28, 2026

Khanna, along with Republicans Mace and Thomas Massie, has been a top Capitol Hill advocate for the release of the Epstein files.

The majority of Americans want to see former Prince Andrew, the King’s brother, testify before the US Congress amid fury over Jeffrey Epstein.

According to an exclusive Daily Mail/JL Partners poll released in March, 53 percent of respondents want to see Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor respond to questions about his involvement with the pedophile.

Democrats were slightly more eager to see the former royal testify, with 58 percent of respondents replying in the affirmative compared to 51 percent of Republicans.

Notably, more men than women wanted Andrew to testify. 

Fifty-eight percent of men want the former prince to come before Congress, while only 47 percent of women do.

Americans are still angry about the slow drip of documents out of the Justice Department related to Epstein, with 67 percent saying they believe there are more to be released.

Top American officials from both political parties, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as former Trump attorney general Bill Barr, have been brought in to give depositions before Congress over their ties to the deceased financier.

Lawmakers have sought to have Andrew and former UK ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, come before them as well.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, younger brother of King Charles, leaves a police station in Norfolk, UK, after he was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

Republican Representative Thomas Massie, and Democratic Representative Ro Khanna, of California, the co-authors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, speak to reporters outside the Department of Justice offices in Washington, DC, on February 9

Back in the UK, Andrew was stripped of his titles in October and kicked out of his residence, Royal Lodge. He has strenuously denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.

Earlier this year, both Andrew and Mandelson, the UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s former ambassador in Washington, DC, were arrested in England and are under investigation for ‘misconduct in public office.’

Andrew appears in emails and photographs in the Epstein files more than 1,821 times, per a Daily Mail analysis.

One image in the files shows him crouching on all fours over a woman lying on the floor, and another shows him with Epstein and First Lady Melania Trump.

Andrew was accused of sexual abuse by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most famous victims. Although he never admitted guilt, he and other royals reached a settlement with Giuffre in 2022, which was widely reported to be worth £12 million ($16 million).

Mandelson and Andrew at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels in June 2007

Then-Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell posing for a photo

This image of Andrew, kneeling over a woman on the floor, was part of the January drop of the Epstein Files

Lawmakers have previously hailed King Charles for stripping Andrew of his prince title as they voted to release the Jeffrey Epstein files last year.

Republican Representative Thomas Massie noted back in November, ‘There’s becoming a reckoning in Britain that needs to happen in the United States: a prince lost his title, the ambassador to the United States lost his job.’

‘We need to see those same kind of consequences here,’ he said, hours before the vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which later sailed through the House, passing by 427 to 1.

Massie was referring to Andrew’s royal titles being stripped last month and the firing of Mandelson.

‘As my colleague Ro [Khanna] said, there shouldn’t be buildings named after these perpetrators of these heinous crimes, there shouldn’t be scholarships named after them, and there needs to be accounting.’

The Republican lawmaker from Kentucky was speaking alongside Democratic Representative Ro Khanna, who warned that Andrew could be dragged before the House to testify.

‘I do think that Prince Andrew does need to come and testify at our oversight committee, and that can be bipartisan,’ Khanna said. ‘But I share [Massie’s] view that the urgency that the British people have shown in getting justice needs to inspire an urgency here in America.’

The House is unable to subpoena Andrew as he is a foreign national.