A U.S. court will examine Tuesday whether Prince Harry obtained his visa to enter the country irregularly after revelations about his drug use in the book Spare have raised doubts about the process. Specifically, a Washington court will evaluate a lawsuit imposed by the Heritage Foundation, a think tank of conservative ideology, against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to obtain information related to the Duke of Sussex’s visa approval process.
“Extensive media coverage has highlighted the question of whether DHS properly admitted the Duke of Sussex because he has publicly admitted to committing drug offenses both in the U.S. and abroad,” reads the lawsuit, accessed by CBS. The Heritage Foundation argues that “U.S. law generally deems a person inadmissible for entry” into the country if there is evidence that he or she has used narcotics in the past. The lawsuit also seeks to have Harry’s immigration history made public because of the “enormous interest” in the case.
What Does Spare, the Book Published by Prince Harry, Say?
In his memoir Spare, the duke admits he consumed narcotics as a teenager and that he even consulted with a woman with “powers,” without giving her name or saying if she was psychic, who told him that his mother, the late Princess Diana, approved of his decision to start a new life in the United States with his wife, American actress Meghan Markle.
The Duke of Sussex admitted to using cocaine, smoking marijuana, and trying hallucinogenic mushrooms. Harry, who moved to California with Meghan in 2020 following his decision to leave the British family, has opened up about his experiences with cocaine as a teenager. “Of course. I had been doing cocaine around that time. I’d been offered a line at someone’s country house during a filming weekend, and I’d had a few more since then,” Harry revealed in the book.
Harry described himself as a “deeply unhappy seventeen-year-old boy willing to try almost anything that would upset the status quo.” Elsewhere in the autobiography, the fifth in line to the throne talks about his switch from smoking tobacco to smoking marijuana during his days at Eton College, as well as revealing that he tried magic mushrooms during a trip to the United States.
Story written in Spanish by Lizbeth García in Cultura Colectiva News
