Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain has urged Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to testify before a congressional committee over his dealings with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, following the release of photographs appearing to show the former British prince kneeling over a woman lying on the ground.
Mr. Starmer’s comments, made on Saturday to reporters traveling with him, increase the pressure on Mr. Mountbatten-Windsor, who was
asked in November by Democrats in Congress to give evidence to an investigation.
“Anybody who has got information should be prepared to share that information in whatever form they are asked to do that,”
Mr. Starmer told reporters, Reuters reported. “You can’t be victim-centered if you’re not prepared to do that.”
Beyond the images of Mr. Mountbatten-Windsor, there was one of Peter Mandelson, the former British ambassador to the United States, in his underwear, talking to a woman wearing a bathrobe. Mr. Mandelson was
fired in September over his links to Mr. Epstein.
Reverberations of the files released on Friday were also felt more widely. In Slovakia, the prime minister, Robert Fico, announced this weekend that he had accepted the resignation of his national security adviser, Miroslav Lajcak, after the release of messages from 2018 between Mr. Lajcak and Mr. Epstein in which they discussed women and a forthcoming meeting with the Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov.