{"id":504712,"date":"2026-03-31T06:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504712\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T06:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:23:08","slug":"king-charles-should-meet-epstein-victims-us-lawmaker-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504712\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles should meet Epstein victims, US lawmaker says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Palace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvg5ww8lq9zo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has previously expressed<\/a> that the King&#8217;s &#8220;sympathies have been, and remain with, the victims of any and all forms of abuse&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In his letter, Khanna said: &#8220;Epstein&#8217;s network had significant ties to the United Kingdom through Ghislaine Maxwell, through Epstein&#8217;s relationships with British public figures, and through the social and political circles in which he operated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These connections, he wrote, &#8220;raise broader questions about how Epstein was able to maintain influence, credibility, and protection across borders for so long&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The California lawmaker also noted that members of Congress have sought testimony from the King&#8217;s brother, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, as well as Peter Mandelson, the UK&#8217;s former ambassador to the US, about their ties to Epstein. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his titles last year due to his ties with Epstein, cannot be forced by a subpoena to go to the US and has not responded to the request.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has consistently and strenuously denied any wrongdoing in his associations with Epstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Palace has previously expressed that the King&#8217;s &#8220;sympathies have been, and remain with, the victims of any&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-504712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}