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Pressures mounting for Andrew
Mountbatton Windsor, formerly Prince
Andrew, to give evidence in the United
States about his former friend, the late
convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Well, victims of Epstein, as well as
several members of Congress have called
for the former prince to speak to the
authorities to tell them exactly what he
knew and when. Well, Andrew, who's now
been stripped of all royal titles, has
always denied any personal wrongdoing.
John Sudworth has the latest on that.
Following his history-making
announcement, photographers captured the
first glimpse of King Charles driving on
his Sandringham estate. While for now,
his younger brother remains here at
Windsor's Royal Lodge, the home he's
soon to lose along with all his titles.
But far from drawing a line in the US,
it's led to renewed calls for Andrew to
reveal all he knows about his friend and
convicted pedophile, the late Jeffrey
Epstein, and to make good on the palace
claim that its sympathies lie with
survivors of abuse.
>> Words without action are really
meaningless. So, I would want to see
some action on his part to back up what
he said. He contends that he had no
involvement. And so I think that a lot
of us are curious as to why he's
unwilling to cooperate um and be
questioned um about his involvement with
Epstein. If he has nothing to hide, then
why is he hiding?
>> Newly unveiled US court documents once
again show the depth of the friendship.
In an email sent in 2010, a few months
after Epstein was released from his
first prison stint, Andrew writes he'll
try to visit him in New York for a
couple of days before the summer,
adding, "It'd be good to catch up in
person." It's all leading to mounting
political pressure, too. Democrat
members of the congressional committee
investigating the handling of the
Epstein case have been calling for
Andrew to testify and threatening to
compel him if he were ever to revisit
the US. Come clean. Come before the US
Congress. Voluntarily testify. Don't
wait for a subpoena. Come and testify
and tell us what you know. Um at the end
of the day, we want to know exactly what
happened. not just to give uh justice to
the survivors, but to prevent this from
ever happening again.
>> Even as Andrew's royal status weakens,
the scrutiny may yet intensify. John
Sudworth, BBC News.
>> Sarah Gristwood is an author and
historian, and I spoke to her earlier
and asked her when she thinks Andrew
will make that move to Sandringham.
It's looking like after Christmas, which
is no doubt a simply it takes a long
time to move out of a 30 bedroomedroom
mansion where you've lived for 20 years,
but also of course Sandringham is where
the royal family, king and all have
traditionally spent Christmas and
they're not going to want to be bumping
into Prince Andrew at every step.
>> Indeed. Now, in terms of next steps,
there's some UK media reports this
morning which suggest that Andrew could
be in line for a six figure payout from
the king to cover relocation costs. I
mean, something like that, if it's true,
is going to irk the British public who
already uh largely uh believe that he
shouldn't be getting any uh anything
from the taxpayer now.
>> No, I think the idea is he won't be
getting anything from the taxpayer, not
directly. this will come from King
Charles private wealth. I agree on the
one hand there could easily be public
thought of why should this man be
subsidized but on the other from the
palace's point of view they're not going
to want to cast Andrew out completely
into the cold a on a personal level he
is still their mother's son but also on
a practical one if they do he's going to
be looking for sources of finance
elsewhere and heaven heaven forbid the
thought of where he might find them.
>> And in terms of what you're hearing from
the palace, I mean, there's no kind of
precedent for this in living memory, is
there?
>> No, there no really there isn't. There
people have been removed from a place in
the succession in the past back in the
days of first of World War I when some
of Queen Victoria's descendants were
Germans and fighting on the other side.
But something like this, no, it is
genuinely unprecedented.
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