Former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been accused of “committing sex crimes in the US” by an American congressman.
Mr Mountbatten-Windsor is one of 14 people Republican Thomas Massie said should be investigated.
In comments made on the House floor, Massie said it had been a year since Donald Trump had signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law, legislation spearheaded by Massie and California Democrat Ro Khanna that compelled the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to release its files on Epstein.
He also called for three million further files relating to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein to be released.
The congressman made the accusation against the former Duke of York as he called for friends of Epstein to be held to account.
Mr Mountbatten-Windsor has consistently and vehemently denied wrongdoing over his relationship with Epstein.
He strongly denied ever sexually abusing his Australian-based accuser, the late Virginia Giuffre, when she was 17.
Mr Mountbatten-Windsor’s name is repeatedly mentioned in the tranche of Epstein files, of which the US Justice Department has released millions of documents.
Speaking to US House of Representatives in Washington DC, Massie said: “We want perpetrators of these crimes to be investigated and prosecuted.
“And (now former) Prince Andrew, who committed sex crimes in the US.”
Giuffre claimed that she was trafficked to have sex with the former prince three times, including once at Epstein’s New York mansion.
Another was alleged to have occurred on Little Saint James, in the US Virgin Islands, which is a US territory.
Mr Mountbatten-Windsor vehemently denied the allegations but later paid Giuffre a reported £12 million ($A23m) in an out-of-court settlement.
Giuffre took her own life in April last year.
Mr Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his royal duties and evicted from his home at Windsor’s Royal Lodge and banished to a farmhouse on the Sandringham Estate.
Being named in documents connected to Epstein or having associated with the multi-millionaire financier does not imply guilt.
Several of the people Massie named as “co-conspirators” have never been charged with any offences connected to Epstein and have denied wrongdoing.