King Charles III is expected to mention convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s victims in his address to Congress, Rep. Ro Khanna said Tuesday.
At a morning roundtable with the late financier’s victims of abuse, the California Democrat said that he met with the British ambassador, who suggested that the king would acknowledge them in his Tuesday speech in the Capitol.
“I hope his flunkies don’t take out the acknowledgment from his text, and I fully expect the king to be acknowledging the survivors — the Epstein survivors — in his speech to our nation and Congress this afternoon,” Mr. Khanna said.
He had been calling for the British monarch to meet with survivors, but the king and Queen Camilla previously said they would not. In response, Mr. Khanna said he was “disappointed.”
“I thought the king owed that to the survivors, given his brother’s serious allegations of abuse,” he said Tuesday, referring to the arrest and investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, for misconduct in public office over his ties to Epstein.
“I thought it would have been an incredible moment, a statement to show that it doesn’t matter how much wealth you have, how much power you have, no human being is dispensable,” the congressman said, adding that “the survivors deserve justice.”
The Epstein Files Transparency Act, of which Mr. Khanna is a co-author, included the public release of documents that detailed Epstein’s connections to Mr. Mountbatten-Windsor.
Upon learning of his brother’s arrest, Mr. Charles said he has the “deepest concern” about potential misconduct, agreeing with a “full, fair and proper” investigation.
