Prince Harry's memoir 'likely not fact-checked in detail' as quotes under question
EXCLUSIVE: Prince Harry saw the claims he made in the memoir challenged as US federal lawyers defended the decision to grant him a visa despite his drug-taking confession.
Prince Harry's bombshell autobiography might not have been "fact-checked in detail" and may not have been fully accurate, a ghostwriter has claimed.
The Duke of Sussex has seen the allegations he made in the memoir Spare challenged after US federal lawyers argued he was granted a visa to the country because the book "isn't proof" he actually took drugs.
A Washington DC-based think tank, The Heritage Foundation, last week took the Government to court to have details of Harry's visa application files released after he admitted to taking drugs in his autobiography.
Under US immigration law, illicit substance use or abuse can be used as grounds to deny an applicant access to the country.
In Spare, Harry claimed to have taken cocaine and magic mushrooms as well as to have smoked marijuana.
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But a ghostwriter with over 80 books to his name told the Daily Express that some of the Duke's anecdotes may have been somewhat "inaccurate."
Joshua Lisec said: "In the case of Prince Harry’s visa, the government’s position is that they don’t accept every word of his memoir to be true, so they aren’t going to use it against him.
"Whatever you think of their decision on this case, they are not wrong about the inaccuracy of memoirs.
"While readers often think they are definitive, many memoirs are not fact-checked in detail.
"Often, ghostwriters and publishers only check closely when a section might be potentially libellous about someone else."
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Lisec added: "But no law says the stories you tell about yourself have to be true."
John Bardo, who represented the Biden administration in the case brought by The Heritage Foundation, argued that Spare "isn’t sworn testimony or proof."
Bardo added: "Saying something in a book doesn’t necessarily make it true.
"Prince Harry is one foreign national out of many who enter the US legally.”
District Judge Carl J. Nichols heard arguments from both sides on whether he should order the Department of Homeland Security to release details of Harry's visa application.
Judge Nichols is expected to hand out a ruling in the coming weeks.
