Prince Harry has been savaged by an expert who warned that the UK does not want him back after former US President Donald Trump told the Daily Express that he wouldn’t give the Duke any special treatment on his immigration status.
The Duke of Sussex was embroiled in a legal challenge pursued by the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC and resisted by the Prince with the support of Biden’s Department of Homeland Security.
Trump told the Daily Express that he “wouldn’t protect” Prince Harry like Joe Biden had and that, if he was reelected, the Duke would “be on his own”.
Daily Mail Diaries Editor Richard Eden weighed in on Trump’s comments, claiming: “This is the US government that has gone to court against this think tank to explain why they don’t want to make this public.
“So what Trump was saying was ‘[Prince Harry] wouldn’t get any of those favours if I was president’.”
However, Mr Eden savaged the thought of Prince Harry being deported from the US and claimed that Britons didn’t want him and Meghan Markle to return.
Speaking on Palace Confidential, he said: “So that is actually worrying. Trump could, potentially, make life difficult.
“The thing that worries me, frankly, is we don’t want him booted out of America or he’ll have to come back here. Harry and Meghan back to Britain. So go easy on him Donald Trump, please.”
The crux of the case brought forth by the Heritage Foundation is whether Prince Harry lied on his visa application about his past drug use and whether the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is obliged to make that information public.
DHS lawyers have argued that Prince Harry’s admissions of drug use in his book Spare are not formal testimony or proof that he actually took illegal drugs.
Illegal drug use can preclude someone from entering the US and make it more difficult to obtain a US visa or citizenship.
