Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., is urging that King Charles III use his upcoming address to a joint meeting of Congress as an opportunity to confront the lingering scandal surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and the British royal family.
According to Fox News, Khanna wants the monarch to meet with Epsteins victims and others connected to the case when he visits Capitol Hill next month. British authorities recently arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew and the brother of King Charles, in connection with an inquiry into the Epstein matter, intensifying scrutiny of what the royal family may have known and when.
Khanna says King Charles could shed light on what the royal family knew about Andrew or Epstein, a prospect that would test long-standing norms shielding royalty from direct political and legal entanglements. Khanna tells Fox he wants the King to meet with victims, then with him and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and the House Oversight Committee, signaling a rare bipartisan interest in pressing the Crown on accountability.
Khanna stressed that he would request Charles to appear, framing the move as an appeal rather than a demand on a foreign head of state. Fox pressed Khanna on whether he would ask that the King be subpoenaed, but Khanna was not ready to go there yet, a hesitation that reflects both constitutional sensitivities and diplomatic realities.
One Oversight Committee source tells Fox that this request is "very delicate" and they risk "an international incident" by asking King Charles to meet with the committee. For conservatives wary of global elites and eager to see equal justice applied regardless of title or status, the episode underscores a broader question: whether powerful foreign royals will ever face the same scrutiny that ordinary citizens do when it comes to the Epstein network.
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