Skye Roberts, brother of the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, sends a message to King Charles ahead of his state visit in an exclusive interview
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Next week, while King Charles III has a private tea with President Donald Trump at the White House, Skye Roberts will meet with senators a mile away at Parliament House.
The two are inseparable as brothers.
Skye Roberts’ younger sister is Virginia Roberts Giuffre. She accused the king’s youngest brother, former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, of sexually abusing her when she was 17 years old.s Trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein.
Giuffre died by suicide a year ago at the age of 41.
Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his title in 2025 and banished from the royal residence. He settled a civil suit with Roberts Giuffre in 2022, but denied any wrongdoing. He has not been charged with any sex crimes, but was arrested this year on suspicion of misconduct in public office after allegedly passing confidential documents to Epstein. He currently resides at the Sandringham Estate, the King’s private estate in Norfolk, England.
Roberts hopes the king will meet with him and other survivors of sexual abuse during a four-day visit to the United States, scheduled to begin on April 27. Mr Roberts’ sister was one of the most outspoken survivors against the disgraced royal family and Epstein.
“I want the King to look me in the face, to see his sister in me. I have her blood. I just want him to see Virginia in a different light than what you read about on the news,” Roberts told USA TODAY in an exclusive interview. “This is not about the King coming here and partying and celebrating with Trump. This should be about you coming here and standing up, setting an example for other world leaders and coming forward for survivors.”
Roberts understands this is a big challenge.
Roberts will stay at his hotel chain while Prince Charles and Camilla join dignitaries for a state dinner at the White House. He plans to prepare arguments to lobby for the Virginia Act, named after his sister, which would eliminate the statute of limitations that has protected sex traffickers like Epstein.
For years, the British royal family ignored any wrongdoing by the former second-in-line to the throne.
The King and Queen’s state visit will mark the 250th anniversary.th Although it is America’s Independence Day, the purpose is also to smoothen relations between Britain and Trump.
“I’m not asking them to fly me out there and meet me at the palace. The King is 10 minutes away from my family in Virginia and from me. I just want 10 minutes with him so he can do the right thing,” Roberts says. “King Charles has an opportunity to stand with survivors and make a difference for future generations.”
Mr Roberts believes the US and UK governments have failed his late sister. They failed to investigate Mountbatten-Windsor’s role in sex trafficking and abuse of girls. And US authorities still have not released the entire Epstein file or held everyone responsible accountable.
Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in 2021 on charges of sex trafficking of minors against Epstein. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison and is currently being held in a minimum security prison in Texas. Epstein died by suicide in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial.
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“Virginia has started a movement.”
The timing of Charles’ visit feels almost divine, Roberts said.
Two days before the royal couple’s arrival, Roberts will take part in a commemoration ceremony to mark the one-year anniversary of her sister’s death on April 25.
“It felt like Viriginia was dancing in the sky,” he says. “I remember her (saying), ‘Don’t worry, let me move the chess pieces. I know you’ll be there for me.'”
The event will also recognize domestic violence awareness and suicide prevention.
Hundreds of women are now calling themselves “Survivor Sisters” and are demanding the identification of people associated with Epstein who they say abused, raped or participated in human trafficking.
“There was an outpouring of love and support. We wanted this to be a moment for all survivors,” Roberts said. “Virginia started a movement. She did something really special in terms of standing up. She deserves this moment.”
“She’s been protecting me for a long time. It’s my turn.”
A year ago, Roberts was in Perth, Australia, with her sister.
She wasn’t feeling well. She had almost finished writing her memoir, Nobody’s Girl, which was published posthumously in October 2025, but was struggling.
She and her husband were estranged. Roberts Giuffre’s brother told her that her husband had been abusive. After an argument, her husband filed a restraining order preventing her from seeing her three children, ages 19, 16, and 15, until June.
Her brother Danny Wilson came with her in late March. Roberts followed suit in April.
“We didn’t want Sissy to be left alone,” he says.
For the next two weeks, they cooked and played together as they did as children growing up in the cypress trees of a rural West Palm Beach suburb. When they were young, it was Roberts Giuffre who took care of her younger brother. When she was only five years old, she woke up her younger brother who was sleeping in his crib and comforted him. She walked around, her legs dangling, carrying her brother like he was her own baby.
She once saved him from a poisonous moccasin and protected him by covering his ears when his parents were fighting. She also protected him from abuse at the hands of his father, she writes in her book.
This time Roberts played the role of protector.
He wanted to keep her safe. “They seemed so happy,” says his wife, Amanda. “I actually heard laughter that I hadn’t heard in years.”
Roberts and his sister would go shopping at thrift stores and just sit together, sometimes in silence. “She became herself again,” he says of her final days.
The next day, April 25, 2025, she disappeared.
Roberts found her.
In the days following the loss of a loved one, the weight of grief can be paralyzing. In the case of suicide, the weight is often compounded by feelings of guilt.
Roberts felt that way.
“People don’t understand what happens when you lose someone like that,” he says. “You feel it too, that I couldn’t take that weight off her while she was still here. She protected me for so long, it’s my turn. I want to do this for her.”
Giuffre Roberts’ husband and children held a private service in Australia.
Roberts returned home to Colorado, where he and Amanda visited his sister’s beloved wolf sanctuary. He recorded her death in an intimate and private manner. Robert Giuffre had told his brother that he wanted his ashes to be scattered there.
He says his sister’s courage helped him stand up and tell her story when all he wanted to do was cry. He is lobbying on her behalf and working with other Epstein survivors.
Roberts knew her sister was writing a memoir, but she didn’t get a copy until about a week before publication.
It contained what he knew, including how she first met Mountbatten-Windsor in March 2001. he was a prince she was 17 years old. Epstein and his colleague Ghislaine Maxwell introduced them.
Ms. Maxwell told the teenager that her job was to look after the former prince.
He wiped his tears with the inside of his shirt.
he gasped. “She used to say to me growing up, ‘I’m so proud of you, little brother, you’re an inspiration to me,'” he says. “But she was my inspiration. She’s the reason I’m the father and husband I am.”
“I’m so glad I was able to finally ask my brother for help,” Amanda says.
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That October night, he and his wife lay in bed, each holding a book. Amanda was several pages ahead. The two were as close as sisters, and Roberts Giuffre held Amanda’s hand during the 26-hour birth of their first child.
“Skydy,” Amanda says, is the name Robert Giuffre called her brother.
Roberts laughs. “My name wasn’t Skye. It was Skydy or my brother.”
When Amanda reached this part of the book, she stopped.
“As I was reading the book, I heard her say his name, and I thought this was going to be a really difficult chapter for him,” she says. She told him to brace himself for it. “But it was a gift she unconsciously gave him.”
“Justice for survivors”
Roberts says the king’s visit is an opportunity.
“The royal family has several options,” he says. “They can leave a stain on future families. Or they can come forward.”
He says his sister and the former prince aren’t the only ones who know what happened. Others know too.
Mr Roberts praised the Crown’s statement supporting a “proper investigation”. But for now, it’s not about sexual abuse allegations. “We want him to be a leader who stands up and says he supports free and fair investigations and wants justice for survivors,” Roberts said.
His sister’s story is often told as one of the courage to come forward and tell your story again, even when no one believes you.
He says her story is that of many other survivors, many of whom are now like sisters to him and his wife. Then he stopped and said to his wife, “Remind me to email Maria Farmer.” Roberts is also a woman who has accused Epstein of abuse, and Roberts has supported her.
These women were like Roberts Giuffre’s sisters.
He can’t be with her anymore. So they will stand together.
Laura Trujillo is a national columnist focused on health and wellness. She is the author of “Stepping Back from the Ledge: A Daughter’s Search for Truth and Renewal” and can be reached at ltrujillo@usatoday.com.
