Meghan Markle, Prince Harry's $250,000 Donation to Ashley Biden's 'Wellness Center'
According to a December charity report, Archewell, the couple's non-profit, donated six figures to Biden's Philadelphia healing clinic for traumatized women.
Nile Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation, is calling for “full transparency and oversight” into Archewell's charitable donation, questioning whether the couple was trying to curry favor with the Biden family, The Daily Mail reported.
The contribution was made during the 2023–2024 tax year when the ex-royal couple appeared to be strengthening ties with the Bidens, as former President Joe Biden was still in office. Biden was still in office.
Mixing Business With Favor
The White House refused the Duke and Duchess of Sussex seats on Air Force One for Queen Elizabeth II's burial in 2022.
They later invited Jill Biden to the Invictus Games, Prince Harry's sporting competition for handicapped veterans, but she declined.
British tabloids said that the White House feared angering Buckingham Palace, from which the Sussexes are estranged.
Another source of rumor are Markle's political ambitions. The former actress's biographer and friend Omid Scobie said Markle “has her eyes set on the U.S. presidency.”
Some Light on the Subject
Scobie has also referred to the Duchess as "the embodiment of the American dream" in an interview with the True Royalty streaming service, and he has expressed the possibility that Meghan could become president one day.
Initially, Markle entered the political arena in 2016 by publicly endorsing Hillary Clinton, who was then the presidential candidate, and denounced her Trump who she termed as a "misogynist" and "divisive."
Valerie Biden Owens, the sister of Joe Biden, stated on "Good Morning Britain" in 2022 that Meghan Markle would be a formidable presidential candidate.
Suit's Details
British media have reported that a source close to Archewell has maintained that the donation was not politically motivated, despite the controversy.
The source asserts that the Duke and Duchess have exhibited a strong interest in mental health advocacy and that Biden's charity is a perfect fit for them..
In the interim, the Heritage Foundation has been advocating for the Department of Homeland Security to disclose Prince Harry's immigration records.
The think tank, in light of Prince Harry's admission to illicit drug use in his 2023 memoir, "Spare," posits that the Duke either fabricated his drug use on the forms or received special treatment to enter the country in 2020.
The question of whether Prince Harry has ever used illegal substances would have been required to be answered during the visa application process. Nevertheless, in his memoir, he disclosed that he had experimented with the use of cannabis, cocaine, and magic mushrooms.