Harry’s American dream is wavering because of Donald Trump

If the British prince has just celebrated a major legal victory (and above all, a large payment into his bank account) this week, Trump’s return to power is putting him under pressure and threatening his American visa more than ever.

What a life Prince Harry has. After a series of painful inconveniences last week (the postponement of his wife Meghan’s new Netflix series, the devastating fires very close to their home in Los Angeles and finally, a calamitous article about them in the Vanity Fair American), this week has not been much calmer for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

After the return with fanfare and to power of their public enemy number 1 (Donald Trump not to mention him), the prince was still able to celebrate a major victory in his trial against the media empire of billionaire tycoon Rupert Murdoch, which was due to begin on Tuesday at the High Court in London.

Indeed, following an amicable agreement with the editor of the tabloid The SunNews Group Newspapers, Prince Harry not only escaped an extremely expensive trial, but he also pocketed the tidy sum of $12 million, according to the Daily Beast.

Although the official amount has not been revealed, a source “familiar” with the details of the settlement claimed that the damages paid to the Duke exceeded “eight figures”. Enough to still ensure some good food in the upscale restaurants of Montecito, where Harry and Meghan are about to celebrate their five years of living in their golden mansion.

A “new era”

Five years… but God knows how much longer. Because the return of Donald Trump to the White House could also mark the outbreak of new administrative problems for the couple exiled from the British Crown.

It’s been almost two years since the Heritage Foundation, a conservative and influential think tank in Washington known for being behind the infamous “Project 2025” government plan, has lobbied for Harry’s immigration record to be be revealed in broad daylight.

These efforts follow the prince’s confessions in his 2023 bestselling memoir, Spareon his consumption of cocaine, cannabis and other psychedelic mushrooms. For the Heritage Foundation, it is a question of determining whether the prince lied in his visa application – or worse, whether he did not benefit from preferential treatment from the Biden administration for s to settle in America.

As a reminder, any visa or green card applicant is generally required to disclose their drug history – and can face serious consequences for lying or deceiving. As heavy as expulsion.

Last year, however, Harry received a reprieve: a judge ruled that “in the absence of a major interest”, his application documents would remain private.

The second term of Donald Trump changes the situation – he who does not carry Harry and Meghan in his heart and who had promised during his campaign for the White House to take “appropriate measures” concerning the immigrant prince.

And as an immigration lawyer in the Daily Beast in the process, the president has many means at his disposal to ruin his life. “His visa could be cancelled. He could be refused entry to the United States upon his return from a trip abroad for inadmissibility due to previous drug use, despite an unexpired visa in his passport,” suggests the expert.

With the 47th president newly inaugurated, lawyers and members of the Heritage Foundation now hope he will overturn the court’s decision to keep the documents sealed. “I will urge the president to release Prince Harry’s immigration records and he has the legal authority to do so,” confirmed the group’s boss, Nile Gardiner, to New York Postthis Wednesday.

“The Biden administration has made great efforts to try to prevent the publication of Harry’s files,” added Nile Gardiner, further specifying that the prince and his wife received “special treatment”.

While it is likely that the Sussexes are not yet very high on the American head of state’s list of priorities, it would be better for them to prepare for any eventuality. Donald Trump, whom Meghan once described as a “misogynist” and snubbed during his visit to the United Kingdom during his first term, has a good memory. And the stubborn grudge.

“If they say anything else to upset him, I don’t think he will have any scruples,” royal author Sarah Louise Robertson whispered on the channel on Wednesday. GB News. In the meantime, the visa saga continues. And it looks exciting.