Prince Harry has been slammed following a lack of transparency over his US visa application and the question of whether he received special treatment.
Prince Harry has been labelled “America’s ultimate Nepo baby” by US-based royal commentator Kinsey Schofield as the row over his visa application rumbles on.
The conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation brought a case against the Duke of Sussex some months ago asking for deatils of his American visa application to be made public, following revelations in his memoir Spare that he had previously taken drugs.
Such an admission would normally prevent a visa in the US from being granted, leading to questions over whether he lied in the application or was given a pass due to his royal status.
The Department of Homeland Security has since argued that the documents should not be released in order to avoid a negative perception of Harry, with the Biden administration requesting that the information remain confidential.
Speaking to Kevin O’Sullivan on TalkTV, Ms Schofield called on the Prince to be “honest” as that is the only way to make the issue disappear.
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Prince Harry has been labelled a ‘Nepo baby’ (Image: Getty)
She asked the US law enforcement authorities: “Why are you going above and beyond to protect this man, who is America’s ultimate Nepo baby?”
Ms Schofield later added: “Did he lie or was he given special privilege? It’s not a hard question to answer. This story dies when they’re honest with us.
“Then we won’t be talking about it consistently. We will let it go, just be honest.”
Harry’s memoir Spare was written by a ghost writer based on the Prince’s recollections, with the nature of the book suggesting it would not be admissible as factual evidence in court.
Harry and Meghan moved to the US in 2020 (Image: Getty)
Professional ghost writer and author of So Good They Call You a Fake Joshua Lisec spoke to Express.co.uk about the possibility for inaccuracies in the book, including possible exaggerations of drug use.
He explained that the nature of the memoir is not to present an entirely factual account of a person’s life, but should instead “read like a novel”.
Mr Lisec added that the structure of a memoir is often changed from a chronological account to one which makes the story more “interesting and commercially viable”, even if it is not exactly what happened.
Spare was hugely commercially successful (Image: Getty)
Mr Lisec emphasised that the nature of a memoir means there is less fact-checking involved than there would be if someone was writing a biography on a famous figure.
John Bardo, a lawyer for the Biden administration speaking in the Prince’s defence, hit back that the memoir cannot be used as evidence as the story may have been embellished.
He said: “The book isn’t sworn testimony or proof that the Duke of Sussex did in fact take illegal drugs. Saying something in a book doesn’t necessarily make it true.”
