Prince Harry is safe to stay in America while Joe Biden remains president, the US ambassador to London has said after Donald Trump threatened action against the Duke of Sussex.
The King’s younger son could face consequences if he lied about taking drugs on his US visa application, Mr Trump said last week as he prepares to take on Mr Biden in November’s White House election.
But interviewed on Sky News, Ambassador Jane Hartley laughed off the remark by the Republican presumptive nominee and said: “It's not gonna happen in the Biden administration.”
Harry’s references to taking cocaine, marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms in his memoir Spare have prompted a conservative US think tank to question why he was allowed to move to the United States in 2020.
The Heritage Foundation has brought a lawsuit against the Department for Homeland Security (DHS) to reveal the contents of Harry’s visa application - claiming it is of “immense public interest”.
In a hearing last November, lawyers for the DHS responded that his answers regarding past drug use should not be disclosed because it is “private personal information”.
But the Heritage lawsuit argues that US law “generally renders such a person inadmissible for entry” to the country.
Interviewed for GB News by Nigel Farage, Mr Trump said Harry should not receive preferential treatment.
He said: “No. We’ll have to see if they know something about the drugs, and if he lied they’ll have to take appropriate action.”
However, the former president refused to be drawn on whether Harry could be forced to leave the US, where he lives in California with his wife Meghan and two children.
Mr Trump also said during the interview that he believed Harry and Meghan had treated the late Queen “very disrespectfully”.
Despite their estrangement from the rest of the royals, the Duke and Duchess issued a statement wishing the Princess of Wales and her family “health and healing” after Kate revealed that she is undergoing treatment for cancer.
Ms Hartley said: “I just want her to know that we are thinking about her, that we care deeply about her. We want her to feel better as soon as she can.
“And I think just being an American, Americans love the royal family,” the ambassador added.
Last month, Harry made an emergency dash back to the UK from California to see the King following his father’s own cancer diagnosis.
