Prince Harry’s candid admission in his memoir Spare that he experimented with drugs like cocaine and magic mushrooms may jeopardize his US visa. According to The Independent, a conservative American think tank named The Heritage Foundation wants Harry’s visa application made public in order to determine if he acknowledged drug use or not. As they say, honesty is the best policy, but it may also work against you. Even if you’re a monarch.
Mike Howell, director of the foundation’s Oversight Project, said while speaking to the Daily Mail, “This request is in the public interest in light of the potential revocation of Prince Harry’s visa for illicit substance use and further questions regarding the Prince’s drug use and whether he was properly vetted before entering the United States.”
In Spare, Prince Harry writes, “Late at night, with everyone asleep, I’d walk the house, checking the doors and windows. Then I’d sit on the balcony or the edge of the garden and roll a joint. The house looked down onto a valley, across a hillside thick with frogs. I’d listen to their late-night song, smell the scented air.”
Harry relocated to California in 2020 after leaving the British royal family
Harry, who is married to American actress Meghan Markle, relocated to California in 2020 after leaving the British royal family. They initially stayed in a magnificent estate in Beverly Hills owned by Tyler Perry but eventually bought their own property in Montecito, an affluent enclave near Santa Barbara.
Page Six quoted former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani as saying that the admission of drug use “is usually grounds for inadmissibility. That means Prince Harry’s visa should have been denied or revoked because he admitted to using cocaine, mushrooms, and other drugs.”
Sam Adair, an immigration lawyer also quoted by the publication, differs from Rahmani, saying that it’s “unlikely that these admissions will present a problem.”
Many critics have panned Spare, which was ghostwritten by JR Moehringer, for including too much personal information and exploiting unearned popularity for monetary gain. Many people have commended Harry’s candor in the memoir.
