Amid a growing public outcry linked to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, a significant number of American citizens are calling for former Prince Andrew to testify before the US Congress. According to a recent Daily Mail/JL Partners poll, 53 percent of Americans are keen on having Andrew Mountbatten Windsor answer inquiries regarding his connections to the late financier. Interestingly, this sentiment is slightly stronger among Democrats, with 58 percent in favor, while 51 percent of Republicans share this view.

The gender breakdown reveals that more men than women wish to see Andrew testify, with 58 percent of male respondents supporting the idea compared to 47 percent of female respondents. Public frustration is also mounting over the perceived slow release of documents from the Justice Department related to Epstein, as evidenced by 67 percent of Americans believing more documents have yet to be unveiled. Richard Kahn, Epstein’s former attorney and accountant, is scheduled to give a deposition to the US House Oversight Committee, followed by another from Darren Indyke, Epstein’s ex-personal lawyer, next Thursday. Prominent figures from both sides of the political spectrum, including Bill and Hillary Clinton and former Attorney General Bill Barr, have already been deposed due to their connections with Epstein, and Congress is eager to also question Andrew and former UK ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson.

In a related development, Attorney General Pam Bondi recently made public additional Epstein documents, including explosive allegations involving former President Trump. These documents, initially withheld due to a coding error, were part of over 3.5 million pages released by the Department. Bondi herself has been subpoenaed by Congress as frustration grows within the Republican Party over the handling of the Epstein case. Meanwhile, back in the UK, Andrew has faced significant personal and professional repercussions, losing his titles and residence at Royal Lodge as of October. Both Andrew and Peter Mandelson are currently under investigation in England for ‘misconduct in public office,’ following their arrests last month.

Andrew appears in emails and photographs in the Epstein files over 1,821 times, per a Daily Mail analysis. One image in the files shows Andrew crouching on all fours over a woman lying on the floor, and another shows him with Epstein and US First Lady Melania Trump, President Donald Trump’s wife. Andrew was accused of sexual abuse by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most famous victims. Although he never admitted guilt, Andrew and other royals reached a settlement with Giuffre in 2022, which was widely reported to be worth £12 million. Lawmakers 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 Mountbatten-Windsor’s royal titles being stripped last month and the firing of Peter Mandelson, the UK’s ambassador to Washington.

‘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 Rep. Ro Khanna, who warned that Mountbatten-Windsor 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.