{"id":2357027,"date":"2026-04-03T14:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2357027"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:39:09","slug":"king-risks-monarchys-credibility-by-not-meeting-epstein-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/king-risks-monarchys-credibility-by-not-meeting-epstein-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"King \u2018risks monarchy\u2019s credibility by not meeting Epstein victims\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-test=\"article-body-text\">\n<p>The King has been warned that he risks \u201closing credibility\u201d if he does not meet Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s victims while on a state visit to the US.<\/p>\n<p>Ro Khanna, the Democrat representative who helped to force the release of <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2026\/02\/06\/everything-the-epstein-files-have-told-us-so-far\/\">the Epstein files<\/a>, has written to His Majesty urging him to meet survivors of the sex offender during his trip to the United States at the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Buckingham Palace announced that the King and Queen would visit the country to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence. But <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/us\/news\/2026\/03\/31\/king-will-not-meet-epstein-survivors-on-state-visit\/\">they will not meet Epstein\u2019s victims<\/a> because of ongoing police investigations related to Epstein in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Khanna claimed that the reasoning \u201chas no plausibility, he [the King] is not going to compromise the legal standing. I mean that\u2019s not gonna fly in the United States of America\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He told Newsnight: \u201cThe King has a clear choice. He\u2019s either going to listen to a bunch of lackeys and take a legalistic way out and have the monarchy have its heyday with Donald Trump obsessed about it, and then start to lose credibility with the new generation in America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr he can do the right thing, meet with these survivors, and actually show that the British royalty and monarchy have some value in the modern world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.telegraph.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The King has been warned that he risks \u201closing credibility\u201d if he does not meet Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s victims while on a state visit to the US. Ro Khanna, the Democrat representative who helped to force the release of the Epstein files, has written to His Majesty urging him to meet survivors of the sex offender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2357028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[403835,22942,183049,21738,22769,344742,425843,24515,356051,382398],"class_list":["post-2357027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-andrew-mountbatten-windsor","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-news","tag-royal-family","tag-standard","tag-the-epstein-files","tag-the-royal-family","tag-uk-news","tag-us-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/King-\u2018risks-monarchys-credibility-by-not-meeting-Epstein-victims.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2357029,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357027\/revisions\/2357029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2357028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}