He’s blessed with a $14.5 million Tuscan-style mansion with seven bedrooms, thirteen and a half bathrooms, library, cinema, gym, pool and chicken coop.
Not to mention two delightful children and a bewitching wife who yearns for you to taste her jam.
But Prince Harry and, indeed, his entire neighbourhood may now urgently be in need of a ‘scrubber’ machine — or several of them — as I will explain.
That’s the verdict of those contending with a ‘skunk-like’ odour, a ‘jaw-clamping stench’ and an ‘ungodly stink’.
It’s caused by the cannabis which is now legally grown in California.
Including at the farm where Meghan and a 50-strong crew will film much of her impending home-cookery series for Netflix.
Lying just ten minutes from the Sussexes’ Montecito residence, the farm is one of several which have seen traditional crops — like grapes and avocados — make way for cannabis, grown on an ‘industrial scale’.
The aromatic consequences have, alas, been overpowering for unsuspecting residents, prompting one to remark he thought ‘something [had] died in the basement’ — until, that is, he remembered he didn’t have a basement.
Convinced the noxious smell was caused by rodents, he called in pest control. ‘The gentleman came over and installed a trap. We waited… and waited.’
Nothing was trapped. Realising the air itself was contaminated, the house owner helped bring a lawsuit against two farms — not the one where Meghan will be filming — whose output is alleged to be especially foul.
This is where scrubbers can, apparently, come to the rescue. A scrubber is the name for a filtering machine which, it’s claimed, can rid the air of 84 per cent of the hideous cannabis reek. But it comes at a price — $22,000 or £17,000-a-piece. That’s not all: ten are needed per acre if they’re to be effective.
It’s enough to get the farmers using some of their own product — one which Harry, in his memoir Spare, said had ‘help[ed]’ him, bringing him ‘a sense of relaxation, relief, comfort…’
It certainly wasn’t hard to spot dancing queen Rosamund Pike at this week’s second anniversary celebration of Abba Voyage.
The Saltburn star, 45, was spotted in a 70s-style, sequinned jumpsuit at the Abba Arena in East London, which features avatars of the legendary Swedish pop band. But Abba star Bjorn Ulvaeus was transfixed by something else.
‘It’s very hard to grasp emotionally that we wrote these little songs and it gave rise to this,’ he said. ‘I have no idea what it really is that makes people want to listen to music that was done [over] 30 years ago.’
With Cannes Film Festival security guards under scrutiny after appearing to clash with high-profile stars, fashionista Victoria Magrath has relived her own ‘brutal’ nightmares from the famous French steps.
‘Numerous times I was shouted at, pushed along, ushered, ushered and ushered until I had to give up trying to smile for one photo,’ she writes about the city’s Palais des Festivals staircase.
‘I’m hoping that the backlash they’ve received this year might make them a bit more lenient.’
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Source: Los Angeles Times
