Prince Harry could be questioned by US authorities over his visa status after he admitted to taking drugs in the past, a royal expert has warned. The Duke of Sussex, 38, admitted in his memoir Spare, and later reiterated on the book tour, that he had taken drugs to cope with the pressure of royal life and his trauma. The revelation has fuelled speculation about whether he disclosed past drug use on his visa application before moving to the United States, with border agents now facing demands to release his form.
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Royal editor Russell Myers said: “There is an admission of drug taking, multiple drugs as we saw in the promotional interviews for his book Spare.
“That really got people talking and wondering whether Harry would be pulled up on it by the US authorities.
“Anyone who’s been to the United States knows about the form-filling, the visa applications are an integral part of actually getting into the country.”
Mr Russell noted other celebrities such as Nigella Lawson were denied entry into the United States after admitting to taking drugs in the past.
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Myers told Sky News Australia’s The Royal Report: “I think this is something we will have to watch and wait and see if the US authorities do get involved.”
The conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation has demanded the Government release Harry’s visa application citing the right of US taxpayers to know the details on his form about past encounters with drugs.
However, a spokesman for the US State Department shut down the request, insisting records are private.
He said: “Visa records are confidential under Section 222(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA); therefore, we cannot discuss the details of individual visa cases.”
Harry said drugs allowed him to cope better with his personal struggles and made him “relaxed”.
He said: “It was the cleaning of the windscreen, the removal of life’s filters — these layers of filters — it removed it all for me and brought me a sense of relaxation, relief, comfort, a lightness that I managed to hold back for a period of time
“I started doing it recreationally and then started to realise how good it was for me.
“I would say it is one of the fundamental parts of my life that changed me and helped me deal with the traumas and the pains of the past.”
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