American lawmakers have hailed King Charles for stripping Andrew of his prince title as they voted to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie spoke outside the Capitol on Tuesday ahead of the vote on the Epstein bill, which later sailed through the House - passing by 427 to 1.

'There's becoming a reckoning in Britain that needs to happen in the United States: a prince lost his title, the ambassador to the United States lost his job. We need to see those same kind of consequences here,' he said.

Massie was referring to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's royal titles being stripped last month and the sacking of Peter Mandelson, the UK's ambassador to Washington.

'As my colleague Ro [Khanna] said, there shouldn't be buildings named after these perpetrators of these heinous crimes, there shouldn't be scholarships named after them, and there needs to be accounting.'

The Republican lawmaker from Kentucky was speaking alongside Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, who warned that Mountbatten-Windsor could be dragged before the House to testify.

'I do think that Prince Andrew does need to come and testify at our oversight committee, and that can be bipartisan,' Khanna said. 'But I share [Massie's] view that the urgency that the British people have shown in getting justice needs to inspire an urgency here in America.'

King Charles stripped Mountbatten-Windsor of his remaining royal titles in October following renewed scrutiny of Andrew's ties to the late financier Epstein.

Buckingham Palace confirmed that he would no longer be styled as 'His Royal Highness,' and that all remaining official patronages and military ranks linked to the crown had been withdrawn.

The decision marked the final step in an agonizing scandal for the family after the prince had already been told to step back from royal duties in 2019 following his disastrous BBC interview about Epstein.

He later paid a multi-million dollar settlement to Virginia Giuffre, Epstein's 'sex slave' who accused him of sexual assault. Mountbatten-Windsor has vehemently denied the allegation.

The vote Tuesday on the Epstein Files Transparency Act triggers the potential release of tens of thousands of documents relating to the late pedophile financier.

Dozens of his victims attended Congress for the historic vote - which has devolved into a political nightmare for Donald Trump who has called it a Democrat-led hoax.

Once vigorously opposed to the release, Trump in a dramatic about-face changed his mind over the weekend after the writing was on the wall.

Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana was the lone 'no' vote on the bill, justifying his decision with the belief that, as written, it 'reveals and injures thousands of innocent people.'

The legislation - delayed for months due to the government shutdown - now heads to the Senate, where Majority Leader John Thune now faces a decision of when to bring up the vote that would send the bill to Trump for his signature.

Thune said that the bill to release the Epstein files could be passed by the Senate as soon as today.

The Department of Justice may block the release of some files by claiming that they would jeopardize an ongoing investigation that Trump recently requested.

Attorney General Pam Bondi last week complied with Trump's request to investigate Epstein's relationships with prominent Democrats, including Bill Clinton.

That could complicate what actually gets released and pour more fire on conspiracy theories surrounding the Epstein case.

Speaker Mike Johnson voted to release the files, but is asking the Senate to amend the bill if it is taken up there, allowing Bondi to redact certain documents to protect victims, sources, and methods.

Trump was known to have associated with Epstein in the early 2000s and has been spotted in photos and videos with both Epstein and Maxwell. He also allegedly wrote a birthday card to Epstein, which featured a depiction of a nude woman.

The birthday letter was reportedly part of a private album compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein's 50th birthday, in which she asked friends to contribute photos, drawings, and personal notes.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released on Wednesday emails subpoenaed from the Jeffrey Epstein estate, which include mentions of President Trump by name.

Meanwhile, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee called the release by their Democrat colleagues 'cherry-picked' to generate clickbait.