UK antimonarchy group makes new report to police about Prince Andrew
- Republic, which wants an elected head of state, made the report following release of US documents linking people, including Andrew, to Jeffrey Epstein
- Republic’s CEO said he wants case reopened, MPs to debate matter in parliament, and King Charles to respond to the claims, which were not detailed
A UK antimonarchy group on Thursday said it had made a complaint to police in London about Prince Andrew, after the release of US court documents detailing people linked to Jeffrey Epstein.
“We’ve just reported Andrew to the police,” Republic, which wants an elected British head of state, said in a statement.
A New York judge on Wednesday began to unseal the identities of those linked in the documents to the disgraced US financier Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while waiting trial for sex crimes.
In them, Andrew, who is formally known as the Duke of York, is accused of groping a woman, which he denies.
Andrew withdrew from frontline royal duties in late 2019 after public outrage at a BBC television interview in which he defended his friendship with Epstein.
The former Royal Navy helicopter pilot, 63, in February 2022 settled a US civil case brought by Virginia Giuffre, who claimed he sexually assaulted her when she was 17.