California Democrat Ro Khanna is not happy that King Charles did not mention convicted deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in his speech before the US Congress on Tuesday.
'It's very disappointing after the British Ambassador told me that the King would talk about the survivors and sex trafficking. The King's failure to acknowledge the pain his brother had caused is a moral failure and emblematic of an elite impunity that is an ongoing affront to survivors,' said Representative Khanna.
In an exclusive comment to the Daily Mail, Khanna also noted that the omission was 'disrespectful to the survivors, including to Sky and Amanda Roberts — Virginia Giuffre's family — who I held a roundtable with this morning.'
'The British Ambassador told me the King would at least acknowledge the Epstein survivors and victims of sex trafficking in the speech. It's a moral failure and emblematic of the elite impunity that Americans and people around the world are sick of,' he added.
Khanna, along with Republican Thomas Massie, has been a top Capitol Hill advocate for the release of the Epstein files.
Khanna has also met with Epstein victims on multiple occasions, including before the King's speech on Tuesday.
EXCLUSIVE: Democratic Representative Ro Khanna of California speaks to Daily Mail at his office in Washington, DC
Britain's King Charles III addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, 28 April 2026
This March 28, 2017, photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein
The majority of Americans want to see former Prince Andrew, the King's son testify before the US Congress amid fury over Jeffrey Epstein.
According to an exclusive Daily Mail/JL Partners poll released in March, 53 percent of respondents want to see Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor respond to questions about his involvement with the pedophile.
Democrats were slightly more eager to see the former royal testify, with 58 percent of respondents replying in the affirmative compared to 51 percent of Republicans.
Notably, more men than women want Andrew to testify.
Fifty-eight percent of men want the former prince to come before Congress, while only 47 percent of women do.
Americans are still angry about the slow drip of documents out of the Justice Department related to Epstein, with 67 percent saying they believe there are more to be released.
Top American officials from both political parties, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as former Trump attorney general Bill Barr, have been brought in to give depositions before Congress over their ties to the deceased financier.
Lawmakers have sought to have Andrew and former UK ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, come before them as well.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, younger brother of King Charles, leaves a police station in Norfolk, UK, after he was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office
Republican Representative Thomas Massie, and Democratic Representative Ro Khanna, of California, the co-authors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, speak to reporters outside the Department of Justice offices in Washington, DC, on February 9
Back in the UK, Andrew was stripped of his titles in October and kicked out of his residence, Royal Lodge. He has strenuously denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.
Earlier this year, both Andrew and Mandelson, the UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's former ambassador in Washington, DC, were arrested in England and are under investigation for 'misconduct in public office.'
Andrew appears in emails and photographs in the Epstein files more than 1,821 times, per a Daily Mail analysis.
One image in the files shows him crouching on all fours over a woman lying on the floor, and another shows him with Epstein and First Lady Melania Trump.
Andrew was accused of sexual abuse by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Epstein's most famous victims. Although he never admitted guilt, he and other royals reached a settlement with Giuffre in 2022, which was widely reported to be worth £12 million ($16 million).
Lawmakers have previously 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's royal titles being stripped last month and the firing of Mandelson.
'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 Representative Ro Khanna, who warned that Andrew 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.