House Democrats have summoned King Charles III’s disgraced younger brother, the former Prince Andrew, to come to Washington, D.C., to share what he knows about his former friend, the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

California Rep. Robert Garcia, the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, has issued a request for Andrew Mountbatten Windsor to appear before Congress for a transcribed interview about Epstein, according to the Post.

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The request comes amid the House Oversight Committee’s ongoing bipartisan investigation into Epstein, the late financier who allegedly trafficked scores of women and underaged girls to his rich, powerful and politically connected friends. The Washington Post said that Andrew’s name has appeared in a number of documents the committee has subpoenaed, and subsequently released publicly, including flight logs.

The king has stripped Andrew of his royal titles amid the ongoing controversy over his brother’s friendship with Epstein, which recently released emails show continued much longer than Andrew stated publicly. British media reports also say that the king’s decision to exile Andrew from royal life was motivated by the recent publication of the posthumous memoir of one of Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking victims. In “Nobody’s Girl,” Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who died by suicide earlier this year, said she was forced to have sex with Andrew three times in 2001 when she was a teenager, the first time in London when she was 17.

Andrew has vehemently denied knowing about Epstein’s sex trafficking operation or of ever meeting Giuffre.

In Garcia’s letter to Andrew, which was sent Thursday, he said: “The Committee is seeking to uncover the identities of Mr. Epstein’s co-conspirators and enablers and to understand the full extent of his criminal operations.” The Washington Post said that 13 other Democrats on the committee signed on to the letter, which requested Andrew respond by Nov. 20.

But Garcia has limited power to summon Andrew, according to the Washington Post. While Congress has strong subpoena powers, it cannot compel testimony from foreign nationals like Andrew, meaning the former prince could ignore the summons. Republican members of the committees also did not sign the letter to Andrew and issued a statement criticizing the Democrats for not backing Republican efforts to enforce subpoenas against former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “Ranking Member Garcia does not speak for the Committee, and his letters carry no Committee authority,” the Republican response said, according to the Post.

Still, with Andrew losing his titles, he becomes a civilian and it’s believed that he has become vulnerable to such interviews requests from authorities on both sides of the Atlantic, including from the FBI and Parliament.

In a statement to the Washington Post, Garcia said: “Rich and powerful men have evaded justice for far too long. Now, former Prince Andrew has the opportunity to come clean and provide justice for the survivors. Oversight Democrats will not stop fighting for accountability and transparency for survivors of Epstein and his gang of co-conspirators.”

Some of the other rich and powerful men once associated with Epstein include former President Clinton, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and President Donald Trump. Trump also denies knowing about Epstein’s sex trafficking operation and said he cut ties with his former Palm Beach neighbor in the mid-2000s.

But his administration still faces criticism for reneging on promises by Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI officials that they would release all of the U.S. Justice Department investigative files on Epstein when Trump returned to the White House. The onetime “international moneyman of mystery,” as New York Magazine called him, died by suicide in August 2019 while in federal custody. He had been arrested for a second time on sex trafficking allegations. He previously served 13 months in a Florida jail after pleading guilty in 2008 to a lesser charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution.