Prince Harry’s US visa court case is ‘terminated’ after a secret ruling – but is the royal really out of the woods?
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be raising a glass in celebration this week, as it has been announced that the lawsuit brought over the visa status of Prince Harry in the US has been terminated.
The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based think tank, sought earlier this year to sue the US government for access to Prince Harry’s immigration records, stating that it is ‘a case about whether the government provides special treatment for high profile celebrities’.
In his memoir, Spare, Prince Harry admits to extensive use of cocaine, marijuana and magic mushrooms. ‘I’d experimented with them over the years, for fun, but now I’d begun to use them therapeutically,’ he writes of psychedelics, adding of cocaine: ‘It wasn’t much fun, and it didn’t make me particularly happy, as it seemed to make everyone around me, but it did make me feel different, and that was the main goal.’
Most people arriving in America must answer whether they have ever used recreational drugs, and it remains unclear whether Harry declared his own use on his visa application.
The Foundation’s lawsuit aimed to uncover whether Harry had been given preferential treatment in this regard – or if he had, in fact, omitted some information about his former drug use.
