The result of the 2024 US election is just hours away, with the world waiting to see if Donald Trump has really won – and it seems Prince Harry could have a lot riding on the outcome

The world is tensely waiting to see if Donald Trump has really secured a second term in the White House – and that includes the Sussexes.

Republicans are already celebrating as the ex-president has won key swing states, but votes in the US election are still being counted. Two people expected to be following the result of today’s presidential election very carefully are Prince Harry and Meghan Markle – with the outcome of the vote potentially proving life-changing for the couple.

While Democratic Kamala Harris has spoken out in support of Meghan in particular in the past, the same cannot be said for her rival Mr Trump. In fact, the Republican candidate has made a series of damning statements about Meghan and Harry during the election campaign and even suggested if he wins the keys to the White House, the Duke of Sussex could be deported from the United States.

Harry has long been berated by Trump since he and Meghan took the dramatic decision to quit as working royals and move to the United States more than four years ago. Back in 2020 at the time of the last US election campaign between Mr Trump and Joe Biden, the Sussexes appeared in a video urging Americans to ‘vote against hate speech’.

While they did not specifically mention anyone by name, the remarks were interpreted as referring to Mr Trump and therefore an endorsement of Mr Biden, with some claiming it was a breach of the Sandringham Summit agreement, which was written up when the couple quit their royal duties in 2020. Later Mr Trump spoke out saying he was “no fan” of Meghan.

Fast forward to recent months, Harry has found himself in the centre of a row over his visa, which allows him to live in California. After admitting to using marijuana, cocaine and psychedelic mushrooms in his controversial memoir Spare, a lawsuit from the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation argued that the US Government should release records about the Duke’s visa US application to show whether his drug use was disclosed.

While Democratic Kamala Harris has spoken out in support of Meghan in particular in the past, the same cannot be said for her rival Mr Trump. In fact, the Republican candidate has made a series of damning statements about Meghan and Harry during the election campaign and even suggested if he wins the keys to the White House, the Duke of Sussex could be deported from the United States.

Harry has long been berated by Trump since he and Meghan took the dramatic decision to quit as working royals and move to the United States more than four years ago. Back in 2020 at the time of the last US election campaign between Mr Trump and Joe Biden, the Sussexes appeared in a video urging Americans to ‘vote against hate speech’.

While they did not specifically mention anyone by name, the remarks were interpreted as referring to Mr Trump and therefore an endorsement of Mr Biden, with some claiming it was a breach of the Sandringham Summit agreement, which was written up when the couple quit their royal duties in 2020. Later Mr Trump spoke out saying he was “no fan” of Meghan.

Fast forward to recent months, Harry has found himself in the centre of a row over his visa, which allows him to live in California. After admitting to using marijuana, cocaine and psychedelic mushrooms in his controversial memoir Spare, a lawsuit from the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation argued that the US Government should release records about the Duke’s visa US application to show whether his drug use was disclosed.