Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have long since settled in sunny California. The couple moved to their $14 million mansion after a short stint in Canada, and by all accounts are aiming to make it their forever home.
However, there’s one particular issue that might cause them issues in the future: Former President Donald Trump has threatened to deport Harry if it’s found that he lied on his Visa application.
Now, if Donald Trump loses the election to Kamala Harris the Sussexes likely have nothing to worry about. In the event that Trump wins, it’s rumored that Harry and Meghan have a backup plan in place.
The US election is only a few weeks away. Just as with any presidential election, it marks an important moment for the rest of the world, but mostly, of course, for US citizens longing for a better future.
The Sussexes & Donald Trump’s troubled past
For some, it’s also an election that could greatly impact their status in the US. The southern border crisis has been a hot topic leading up to the election, with Donald Trump loudly promising to shut the borders and prioritize the issue of immigration if he wins. Moreover, he has vowed to enforce the biggest mass deportation of undocumented migrants in US history – but it may not only be undocumented migrants that face the possibility of being forced out the country.
According to reports, Prince Harry has also been threatened by the former president with deportation, and the relationship between the pair is not exactly a friendly one.
It all began in 2019 when Donald Trump visited the UK. As part of the trip, he met with the various senior members of the British Royal Family, including then-Prince Charles and, of course, the late Queen Elizabeth II.
Yet certain tensions had risen prior to the the UK visit, and they had to do with Meghan Markle. In 2016, during the presidential campaign in which Trump was running for office, Meghan appeared on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore and discussed the former The Apprentice star, accusing him of being “misogynistic” and “divisive.” She also pledged to vote for his rival, Hillary Clinton.
Fast forward to Donald’s UK visit, and Meghan had just given birth to Archie. As she was on maternity leave, she didn’t make an appearance during the state visit.
Donald Trump called Meghan Markle “nasty”
Other reports suggested that she and Trump were purposely kept apart to avoid an embarrassing clash, not least because of what Trump – by that point the President – said before arriving in the UK.
The fact that Donald called Meghan nasty affected not only the Duchess but also her husband, Prince Harry. This was especially pertinent since Harry was scheduled to attend a lunch at which Trump was also supposed to be present.
One can only imagine that Harry wasn’t happy about what the former real estate tycoon had said about his wife, but according to royal expert Victoria Arbiter, he was expected to “toe the line” around the US President since part of being a working British royal means remaining politically neutral.
“The Royal Family will be professional and duty-bound. But Prince Harry will be going to a private lunch with the Queen on Monday with Donald Trump and the First Lady, how incredibly awkward this is going to be for Prince Harry. He will lay on his very best charm because that is what he has been raised to do; that is what he is required to do,” Arbiter told the Express at the time.
In any case, it’s been made clear since that Trump isn’t a big fan of Harry either. In fact, the former president could be a threat to the estranged prince’s US future if he wins the Presidential Election.
Last year, the American conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for access to Harry’s immigration records. When applying for certain American visas, one must disclose whether they ever have taken drugs, which could result in their application being denied.
Did Prince Harry lie about taking drugs on his US Visa application?
But Harry did disclose the truth in his Spare memoir, revealing that he had previously used various drugs and psychedelics, including cocaine, marijuana, and magic mushrooms.
Harry also admitted that he had lied as a teenager about using cocaine. He excused his drug use by attaching it to the burden he felt relating the death of his mother, Princess Diana.
“Of course…I had been doing cocaine around this time…I’d been offered a line, and I’d done a few more since. I was a deeply unhappy 17-year-old boy willing to try almost anything that would alter the status quo. That was what I told myself anyway,” Harry wrote in Spare.
He went on to explain how he used psychedelic drugs, and that they allowed him to “escape reality for a while.”
“All the great seers and philosophers say our daily life is an illusion. I always felt the truth in that. But how reassuring it was, after nibbling a mushroom, or ingesting ayahuasca, to experience it for myself,” he continued.
The Heritage Foundation went on to explain why they had sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for access to Harry’s immigration records.
“Harry has publicly admitted to extensive illegal drug use. What do we submit this means? That Harry seems to have received special treatment: the [Department of Homeland Security] looked the other way if the prince answered truthfully, or it looked the other way if the prince lied on his visa application. Either action would be wrong,” it read.
Donald Trump threatens to deport Prince Harry
Prince Harry’s Visa application was assessed by the federal courts, but in September, a judge ruled that it should remain private. What might happen if Donald Trump wins the presidential election – and whether he can do anything about the subject of Harry potentially lying on his Visa application – is yet to be seen.
At the same time, the former president has been very clear on his stance that the prince could be deported if he lied about his past drug use on his visa application.
“We’ll have to see if they know something about the drugs, and if he lied they’ll have to take appropriate action,” Trump told GB News in March.
Just a month earlier, Trump clarified that he “wouldn’t protect” Harry if he wins the 2024 presidential election in November.
“I wouldn’t protect him. He betrayed the Queen. That’s unforgivable. He would be on his own if it was down to me,” Trump told the Express, adding that he believes the Royal Family was “too gracious” to Harry after “what he has done.”
As of now, Harry is not a US citizen, though he has considered becoming one. Speaking with ABC News, he said it had crossed his mind to apply for citizenship, but that it’s “certainly not” a high priority.
Sadly, according to a royal expert, the prince nonetheless most likely regrets that he wrote about his drug use in his memoir.
Meghan Markle “does her best to support Harry”
In July, royal expert Tom Quinn spoke to the Mirror about it, saying that Harry hopes to be spared over the revelations.
“Harry initially thought this couldn’t possibly happen to him as the normal rules don’t apply to a Royal Prince, but he is increasingly realizing that in the United States being a prince doesn’t actually count for very much. But one thing is for sure Harry deeply regrets ever making his drug-taking public. It never occurred to him that this might end up threatening his whole life plan,” Quinn said.
“He finds the day long and lonely,” he added. “Meghan does her best to support Harry, but she is in her natural environment, and he is in a strange unfamiliar world which grows increasingly unfriendly.”
The royal expert continued by claiming that Harry and Meghan have already looked for legal advice over his confessions in Spare. If Trump wins, the Sussexes are concerned it might affect their residence status in the US.
“The couple have taken legal advice because they’re seriously worried that if Donald Trump wins the next election Harry’s visa may be revoked,” Quinn concluded. “Trump has insisted that if Harry is found to have lied on his visa application about his admitted drug taking, he could be asked to leave the country.”
The possibility that Prince Harry could be kicked out of the country has now forced them to act.
Prince Harry & Meghan Markle as a “backup plan” if Donald Trump wins Presidential Election
According to royal expert Hugo Vickers, Harry is on very thin ice with Trump, and so has decided to get a “backup plan.”
“Knowing the character of Trump, he’s quite likely to want to do something which sort of bangs the fist on the table and establishes his authority. And also something which would get a lot of publicity,” Vickers told The Sun.
“So I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he suddenly said ‘Right, I’m sending Prince Harry out of this country.’ And the reasons that he would use would be the drug issue, because Prince Harry has admitted to taking marijuana, cocaine, magic mushrooms – and may not have filled that in on his visa form.”
The royal expert continued by saying that Trump’s “reasoning” behind pushing them out of the country could also be because of his and Meghan Markle’s bad history.
“Meghan has been quite rude about him over the years, and I think Prince Harry has too. When Trump came to England to see the Queen, he went away telling people that she thought he was her favourite president. So his line has very much been that he resents Prince Harry having caused the Queen so much grief in the last two years of her life,” Vickers added.
“And Trump has stated publicly he won’t forgive Harry. Trump probably thinks ‘I got on well with the Queen’, which he definitely did, and ‘I would like to respect her memory by booting him out.’”
Vickers concluded: “He doesn’t really abide by the rules. To get Harry out, he would stump the table and tell somebody to look into the way you do these things and just fix it. You know that’s the way he is.”
Donald Trump’s son branded Prince Harry & Meghan Markle “spoiled”
Trump isn’t the only one in his family that appears to not be the biggest fan of Harry and Meghan. Speaking to GB News in August, Trump’s son Eric Trump branded the Sussexes “spoiled” apples, praising the monarchy.
“What I can tell you is my father had so much respect for the queen, as did I,” he said. “My mom [the late Ivana Trump] knew so many of them for years, I think you probably know that, had a great relationship with Diana and everyone else,” Eric Trump said, per Newsweek.
“You know, that’s a very sacred institution and you can happily have those two back. We’ll happily send them back from America, you can have them back over here, but I’m not sure you guys want them any more than we might not want them anymore. They feel like they’re on a little bit of an island of their own.”
He continued: “But listen, you can always have bad actors in anything, you can always have spoiled apples in every orchard, but the institution of the Royal Family is beautiful and it’s something that is actually admired by a lot of Americans.”
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