Americans want Harry to ‘go back to Britain’
AMERICANS want the Duke of Sussex to return to Britain, the head of a leading Washington think tank has said.
Kevin Roberts, president of the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, is assisting the think tank’s legal action to investigate the Duke’s US visa application following his admissions of drug-taking in his memoir, Spare.
Asked whether the Duke should be deported following these revelations, Mr Roberts said: “We don’t like him being in America and we would love for him to come back to you or somewhere.
“I guess we, as Americans, see Prince Harry the same way you see President Biden. You can have him back.”
The Heritage Foundation, the biggest conservative think tank in the United States, has demanded the release of the Duke’s American visa application.
The US government has so far refused to release it, despite a freedom of information request, but a court will rule on whether to compel officials to release his immigration records to the public after pressure from the group.
It is basing the case on US immigration laws which state that any foreigner “determined to be a drug abuser” is classed as “inadmissible”, although immigration officials can use their discretion to waive the restriction.
The Duke admitted in his autobiography – and in television interviews promoting it – to taking cocaine, cannabis and magic mushrooms in the past.
He also confessed to taking magic mushroom chocolates – illegal in the United States – at a party held at the Los Angeles home of Courteney Cox, the actress from the television series Friends, in 2016.
In an interview with Variety in February, Cox confirmed that Prince Harry had stayed at her house but denied “passing out” psychedelics.
♦ The former chief executive of the Daily Mirror’s parent company has denied “untrue” claims that she was involved in any cover-up of alleged phone-hacking allegations brought by the Duke of Sussex.
Sly Bailey, who ran Trinity Mirror from 2003 to 2012, told the High Court that she wanted to testify in the Duke’s case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) to “put the record straight” and “categorically” deny her involvement in unlawful information gathering.