British PM Keir Starmer says ‍the former Prince Andrew should testify before a US congressional committee, following the latest revelations about his links to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Files related to Epstein published by the US justice department on Friday (local time) included ⁠emails showing the King’s brother maintained regular contact with Epstein for more than two years after he was found guilty of child sex crimes.

The files also include pictures appearing to Mountbatten-Windsor, crouching over and touching the waist of an unidentified woman lying on the floor. Her face was blacked out in the redacted images.

The images are among more than three million documents published by the US Department of Justice. Photo: AAP 

Separately, the BBC on Sunday quoted a US lawyer as saying a woman had alleged she was sent, while in her 20s, by Epstein to Britain for a sexual encounter with Mountbatten-Windsor. She alleges it took place in 2010 in a royal property on the Windsor Castle estate.

The allegation represented the second claim of a woman being flown from the US to Britain to meet Mountbatten-Windsor after Virginia Giuffre, a prominent accuser of Epstein, said she was forced to have sex with him in London.

In 2022, the former prince made an undisclosed payment to settle a lawsuit brought in the US by ​Giuffre who died by suicide last April. Mountbatten-Windsor, 65, has always denied Giuffre’s account.

The ‌King stripped his ​brother of his title of prince and evicted him from his mansion in Windsor Castle grounds in November, after earlier revelations about his links with Epstein.

Mountbatten-Windsor has denied wrongdoing in connection with Epstein and had previously denied maintaining ties with the financier after Epstein’s 2008 conviction, apart from a 2010 visit ​to New York to end their relationship.

He did not ‌reply to a Reuters request for comment on the latest revelations. Buckingham Palace declined to comment.

Starmer, speaking aboard a flight ​to Japan after a four-day visit to China, said the former prince should appear before US politicians to ‍explain everything he knows about Epstein to help his victims.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says Epstein’s victims have to be the first priority. Photo: AAP

“Anybody who has got information should be prepared to share that information in whatever form they are asked to do that,” Starmer said.

“You can’t ​be ​victim centred if you’re not prepared to ​do that.”

“Epstein’s victims have to be the first priority. Whether there should be an apology, that’s a matter for Andrew,” he said.

In November, members of a US congressional committee investigating ​the Epstein case intensified their calls for Mountbatten-Windsor to answer questions.

Elsewhere in Friday’s document dump, screenshots and scans appear to show the former prince exchanged emails with Epstein about a “beautiful” Russian woman and invited him to Buckingham Palace.

The files show Mountbatten-Windsor maintained regular contact with Epstein after his conviction, including discussing potential business deals and social meetings.

A document showing an email exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Photo: AAP 

In several emails, Epstein and the former prince discuss women that the financier proposes to put in touch with the prince. In ‍one email, Epstein offered to bring three women to Buckingham Palace.

Emails also appear to show that Epstein wanted Ferguson to release a statement saying the financier was “not a pedo” and she had been “duped” into believing false allegations about him.

Email exchanges in the files involve Epstein and someone referred to just as “Sarah”, whose email address is redacted. Discussions with others about “Fergie” are also redacted.

In one exchange from August 2009, “Sarah” thanked Epstein for “being the brother I have always wished for” and she has “never been more touched by a friends kindness”.

Epstein died by suicide in 2019 in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. He was jailed in 2008 for soliciting paid sex from a minor.

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