A GB News host said Prince Harry’s visa records may have a record of drug use after Conservative MP Suella Braverman “called on” the President of the United States to release them.
Darren Grimes told Sky News Australia: “According to his memoir, they indeed will find evidence of an admission of drug use.”
Conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation called upon the release of Prince Harry’s immigration papers to the public domain as they believe that the Duke of Sussex may have been unfairly granted entry into the US.
The organisation began calling for this after the prince revealed in his 2023 memoir Spare that he had previously taken cocaine, marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms, with the group alleging the duke may have lied about his drug use on his visa application or may have been protected by the previous Biden administration.
It previously said Prince Harry’s future in the US could be uncertain and he could face deportation within months of Donald Trump coming to office if proof of wrongdoing comes to light.
The Heritage Foundation lost its previous case against the Department for Homeland Security in September to try and get Harry’s visa documents made public. In September, Judge Carl J Nichols ruled that the documents should remain private.
Darren told Sky News Australia: “We’ve got the former UK Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, who has thrown a spanner in the works by calling on President Trump to release some very important documents.”
Braverman said: “I think there’s a very strong case for President Trump to intervene and direct the release and disclosure of these documents. The American people should have a right to know what’s happened here.”
During the discussion, Darren questioned the uncertainty that lies ahead: “If they are released [visa application], according to his memoir, they will find evidence of an admission of drug use which would bar him from entering the United States. I mean, Harry banned from America? It’s enough to make you shudder!”
The current US President is believed not to be a fan of the couple and made this very clear after they quit life as senior royals.
Before he was re-elected, Mr Trump told the Express US: “I wouldn’t protect him. He betrayed the Queen. That’s unforgivable. He would be on his own if it was down to me.”
Now, Harry’s US visa application is set to return under the spotlight as The Heritage Foundation has re-opened the case.
A lawsuit aiming at the release of the secret documents will have its first court hearing since Donald Trump took office next month.
Lawyers for the think tank and Harry, 40, have been ordered by Judge Carl J Nichols – who previously said the visa documents should remain private – to meet at a federal court in Washington DC on February 5, according to a ruling seen by Newsweek.Â
Nile Gardiner, director of Heritage’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, told the New York Post: “I’ll be urging the president to release Prince Harry’s immigration records and the president does have that legal authority to do that.
“Donald Trump is ushering in a new era of strict border control enforcement, and you know, Prince Harry should be held fully to account as he has admitted to extensive illegal drug use.”
It is not known whether the duke admitted his previous drug usage on his visa applications, something which must be declared by US law.
