Prince Harry faces his first court hearing today, February 5, in Washington DC, when Judge Carl J. Nichols will examine documents related to Harry’s U.S. visa. The case has been reopened by the conservative Heritage Foundation organization which alleges that Harry may have provided false information on his application regarding his drug use.
Previously, he had obtained legal relief through a court ruling on the confidentiality of his U.S. visa, despite the Heritage Foundation’s insistence that it had access to his application to verify his claims of drug use. In more detail in fact, in 2024 the conservative organization filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security demanding access to Harry’s visa records to verify the accuracy of his statements.
The sentence had been filed last September, but with the new Trump administration, Heritage is hoping for favorable support from the new political framework. The 40-year-old Harry, who lives in California with his wife Meghan Markle and children, had publicized his history of drug addiction precisely through his autobiography “Spare,” released in 2023. In those pages, he recounts that for a time he took substances such as cannabis, hallucinogenic mushrooms and even cocaine.
The Heritage Foundation claims that Prince Harry failed to declare his drug-related history in immigration documents filed before he left the United Kingdom and quit royal duties and therefore his application was not valid and should be revoked..
