King Charles won't meet Virginia Giuffre's brother on US visit

Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News on Apr 24, 2026

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King Charles III will not meet with the brother of the woman that his own brother is accused of sexually abusing during the Monarch’s upcoming U.S. visit.

The king begins a four-day trip Monday that includes a visit to New York City and an address to the U.S. Congress. It will not include a meeting with Sky Roberts, whose late sister Virginia Roberts Giuffre settled a civil suit with the member of the royal family formerly known as Prince Andrew in 2022.

The 66-year-old defendant, now called Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was stripped of his royal titles following the settlement of that lawsuit. British media said that deal came at a cost of $13.5 million.

Roberts had hoped to confront the king.

“I want the king to look me in the face, to see my sister in me. I’m her blood,” he told USA today. “I want him to see Virginia in a different way than just reading it in the news.”

Buckingham Palace told USA today that such a meeting could compromise “ongoing police inquiries” and impact potential legal proceedings involving the palace. Officials there couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.

Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025 in Australia. She’d accused the former royal of being one of the men to whom she was trafficked by sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein when she was a minor. Her brother lives in Colorado.

King Charles will meet with President Donald Trump on his visit. Trump said in July that he and Epstein had a falling out because the sex offender, who died in jail on 2019, was stealing employees from his Mar-a-lago spa including Giuffre.

“When they steal people, I don’t like that,” the president said.

Trump has been charged with no crimes involving Epstein.

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