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(CNN) — As King Charles III and Queen Camilla were being greeted by the US president and first lady with pomp and circumstance designed for royalty at the White House on Tuesday morning, a group of individuals who had been denied an in-person meeting with the king and queen took their chance to be heard a couple of miles down Pennsylvania Avenue.

The group on Capitol Hill included survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, their family members and advocates, who also gathered over the weekend for a memorial for Virginia Giuffre. The late Epstein victim had accused Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the king’s brother, of sexual assault and died by suicide one year ago. The former prince has denied all accusations against him and insisted he never witnessed or suspected any of the behavior of which the late Epstein is accused.

“Today, survivors are here, sitting with members of Congress, still fighting to be heard, still pushing for real accountability, while many of the powerful figures connected to these systems remain just out of reach, unable to acknowledge survivors face to face,” Sky Roberts, Giuffre’s brother, said Tuesday.

“You would expect this to be a moment for the king to give a message to the world that he stands with survivors. We still can’t get that from our own president of the US, who continues to say ‘hoax,’ ‘victims or whatever.’”

Roberts’ brief remarks calling out not just the monarchy but also President Donald Trump (who has not been accused of any criminal wrongdoing related to Epstein), was a stark reminder of how much the scandal continues to rock the highest echelons of society, government and celebrity in both countries. And some Epstein survivors and US lawmakers want the convicted sex offender to be part of the story of the royal visit, even as the king and queen have a different agenda planned.

Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, who co-sponsored the law that forced the Justice Department to release millions of Epstein files in its possession, had attempted to seize on the royal visit by writing a letter to the king last month requesting that he offer an in-person meeting with Epstein survivors.

But CNN reported that the king and queen do not plan to accept that request during their four-day visit marking the 250th anniversary of US independence, with Buckingham Palace conscious that such a meeting could affect the British legal probe into Mountbatten-Windsor. That decision is in keeping with the king and queen’s broader strategy of avoiding public statements related to Epstein — the late pedophile who has brought so much scandal, shame and pain to the royal family.

As a symbolic head of the British judiciary, the king could be accused of prejudicing the criminal investigation into his brother if he speaks to the Epstein scandal directly.

(When the former Prince Andrew was arrested on suspicion of miscon

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(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Baseball Hall of Fame player Yogi Berra.

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Birth date: May 12, 1925

Death date: September 22, 2015

Birth place: St. Louis, Missouri

Birth name: Lawrence Peter Berra

Father: Pietro Berra, bricklayer

Mother: Paulina Berra

Marriage: Carmen (Short) Berra (January 26, 1949-March 6, 2014, her death)

Children: Larry, Tim and Dale

Military service: US Navy, 1943

Other Facts

The name “Yogi” comes from a childhood friend who said a character in a movie looked like Berra.

Left school after the 8th grade to work and play American Legion baseball.

Holds several World Series records, including hits (71); times on a winning team (10); first in doubles, second in RBI’s, third in home runs, and hit the first pinch-hit home run in World Series history in 1947.

Known for making humorous but disjointed statements, such as “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over,” “when you come to a fork in the road, take it,” and “it’s deja vu, all over again.”

Timeline

1943 – Signs with the New York Yankees; plays with the Norfolk Tars of the Class B Piedmont League before being drafted.

1946 – Plays with the Newark Bears, the Yankees’ top affiliate; moves up to the Yankees towards the end of the season and hits a home run against the Philadelphia A’s in his first game.

1951, 1954, and 1955 – Wins the American League MVP award.

1956 – Catches while Don Larsen pitches a perfect game in the 1956 World Series.

1963 – Last season playing for the Yankees.

1964 – Is named manager of the Yankees, but is fired after the Yankees lose to the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series.

1965 – Moves to the New York Mets as a player and coach.

1972 – Is named manager of the Mets.

1972 – Is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1975 – Is fired from the Mets.

1976 – Is hired by the Yankees as a coach.

1984 – Is named manager of the Yankees.

1985 – George Steinbrenner fires Berra after only 22 games.

1986-1992 – Coaches for the Houston Astros until he retires.

December 1998 – Montclair State University opens the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in Little Falls, New Jersey.

2005 – Sues Turner Broadcasting for $10 million after the company uses his name without permission in a suggestive ad for “Sex and the City.” The lawsuit is later settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.

May 4, 2008 – Berra is inducted into the inaugural class of the New Jersey Hall of Fame, along with Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Bruce Springsteen.

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