| When a king shows moral courage, it exposes the cowardice of many. | | Your Majesty, | | Across the world, millions of children are being sexually assaulted, and most are also being silenced. Survivors are still being ignored and disbelieved. And leaders—the very people entrusted with the power to protect—are still choosing power, privilege, and political convenience over truth. This is a problem we can no longer afford to ignore. | | I write to you not because I believe Britain’s monarch should wade into politics, but because you have long stood as a moral compass—a voice for morality, stewardship, and duty. You have spoken of the sacredness of nature, of the environment as our shared inheritance. Today, I ask you to extend that same moral clarity to another endangered realm: the safety and dignity of our children. | | Your decision to strip your brother Andrew of his royal titles and military roles—despite the personal pain it must have caused—was a moment of rare, principled leadership. You did what so many in positions of power will not: you placed principle above privilege, and accountability above family loyalty. In doing so, you modeled the difficult but necessary truth that no one, not even those closest to us, can be exempt from responsibility when it comes to the exploitation of children. That is what leadership looks like. | | For decades, the sexual abuse of children has been hidden behind the walls of institutions, the sanctuaries of churches, the gates of private estates, and now—the encrypted vaults of court files and congressional maneuvering. The Epstein files—still sealed and hidden from public view represent more than a scandal. They are a mirror held up to our collective cowardice. What does it say about our country when the truth can be purchased, protected, or postponed indefinitely? | | Survivors look to our leaders, and they avert their eyes. They turn to our institutions, and they protect their reputations instead of our children. | | And in the United States, the cover-up continues to this day, often in plain sight. Speaker Mike Johnson’s refusal to swear in Arizona’s newly elected Representative Adelita Grijalva—duly chosen by the citizens of Arizona, and ready to serve—is more than a partisan maneuver. It is an act of obstruction that delays justice, truth, and accountability. It denies voters their rightful voice in Congress and signals, once again, that protecting political power takes precedence over protecting children. When those who lead the People’s House use silence as a shield, it echoes the same moral failure survivors have faced for generations. | | Moreover, the world is watching—and the commentary speaks volumes. Recently, when President Donald Trump was asked about your decision to strip your brother Andrew of his titles, he said: “I feel very badly. It’s a terrible thing that’s happened to the family. That’s been a tragic situation. It’s too bad. I feel badly for the family.” Those words reflect a global instinct to sympathize with power rather than with those who have been harmed by it. Yet Your Majesty, you chose a harder path—one that honors truth over comfort, duty over denial, and justice over family loyalty. That act of integrity reveals what real leadership looks like, and why the world needs more of it. | | In America, accountability has also been clouded by troubling optics. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, met with Ghislaine Maxwell shortly before Maxwell was transferred from Florida prison to the Federal Prison Camp in Texas, a cushier campus-like, lower-security facility. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for the sex trafficking of teenage girls. No one has publicly explained why that meeting occurred or how that transfer was approved so swiftly. For survivors, this clandestine meeting and favor raise serious concerns. Recent news has surfaced that Maxwell is receiving preferential treatment in her cozier digs and that she is seeking commutation. Once again, those in power bend the system, and the privileged receive special treatment. The appearance of cover-up is blindingly evident; it is all, as the British say, a bit dodgy. After all she must be giving something to get something. As Trump weighs a possible commutation for Ghislaine Maxwell, newly released House Oversight emails reveal Epstein’s chilling remark about “the dog that hasn’t barked”—suggesting that Trump himself, long within Epstein’s circle, remains the one name conspicuously absent. | | Transparency must never be contingent upon relationships or political alliances. It is a fundamental principle of any legitimate justice system. Representative Jamie Raskin exemplifies the integrity our nation deserves, courageously confronting corruption and seeking to unveil the “give and take” of any deals between this convicted sex offender and the White House. | | So I turn to you, Your Majesty—not as a king, but as a father, a grandfather, and a moral voice heard across the Commonwealth. The United States and nations around the world need moral leadership that transcends politics, privilege, and power. You have the power and moral clarity to remind our government that protecting children is not optional. Transparency is not a threat to justice—it is the foundation of it. | | The files must be released. The truth must be told. Survivors deserve not only justice, but the dignity of acknowledgment. Transparency is not just a demand, it’s a necessity. Your late mother once said, “Grief is the price we pay for love.” Perhaps now we must say: Silence is the price we’ve paid for power. And at great cost to our children. | | Please, Your Majesty—pick up the phone, give a ring to the political leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives and the man who covets your crown in the White House. Remind them of what duty and integrity truly mean. History will remember, fondly, those who chose courage over comfort, and infamously, those who did not. | | Yours Respectfully, | | An American, on behalf of children everywhere. | By Kathryn Robb, Esq.
Kathryn Robb is National Director of the Children’s Justice Campaign at ENOUGH ABUSE®.
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