He’s blessed with a $14.5 million Tuscan-style mansion with seven bedrooms, thirteen and a half bathrooms, a library, a movie theater, a gym, a swimming pool, and a chicken coop — not to mention two adorable kids and a charming wife who’s dying for you to taste her jam.
But Prince Harry and, indeed, his entire neighborhood may now be in dire need of a scrubbing machine – or several – as I’ll explain.
That’s the opinion of those who struggle with a ‘skunk-like’ smell, a ‘jaw-tightening stench’ and an ‘ungodly stench’.
It’s caused by cannabis that’s now legally grown in California — including the farm where Meghan and a 50-strong crew will film much of her upcoming home cooking series for Netflix.
Located just ten minutes from the Sussexes’ Montecito residence, the farm is one of several where traditional crops — such as grapes and avocados — have given way to cannabis, which is grown on an ‘industrial scale’.
The aromatic effects were unfortunately overwhelming for unsuspecting residents, prompting one to remark that he thought ‘something [had] died in the cellar’ — until, that is, he remembered that he had no cellar.
Convinced that the harmful smell is caused by rodents, he called for extermination. ‘The Lord came and set a trap. We waited… and waited.’
Nothing was captured. Realizing that the air itself was contaminated, the homeowner helped launch a lawsuit against two farms – not the one where Meghan will be filming – whose record is said to be particularly poor.
Here, obviously, cleaners can come to the rescue. The purifier is the name for a filtering machine that is claimed to be able to clean the air of 84 percent of the horrible smell of cannabis. But that comes at a price – $22,000 or £17,000 each. That’s not all: you need ten of them per hectare if they want to be effective.
It is enough to get the farmers to use some of their own product—one that Harry, in his memoir Spara, said ‘helps[ed]’ him, bringing him a ‘feeling of relaxation, relief, comfort…’
I hear it’s greener pastures for Idris Elba, who just returned from a trip to Ibiza where he DJed for stars including models Amy Jackson and Leomie Anderson, pictured right, at a Gray Goose launch party for their new vodka, Altius.
Because the Luther star, whose net worth is estimated at £40m, is turning his attention to an unusual gardening venture, they can now reveal.
Newly filed documents reveal that Elba, 51, is launching his own fertilizer range and will trade under the name Growing Media — with products in the range including peat moss, bark, rice husks and wood fibre. Alan Titchmarsh, look out.
It certainly wasn’t hard to spot dancing queen Rosamund Pike at this week’s Abba Voyage second anniversary celebration.
The Saltburn star, 45, was seen wearing a ’70s-style sequin jumpsuit at the Abba Arena in east London, featuring avatars of the iconic Swedish pop band. But Abba star Bjorn Ulvaeus was mesmerized by something else.
‘It’s very hard to emotionally understand that we wrote these little songs and it led to this,’ he said. ‘I have no idea what it is that makes people want to listen to the music that’s been made [over] 30 years ago.’
While Princess Beatrice was a frequent visitor to the Monaco Grand Prix, Dara Huang — mother of her stepson ‘Wolfie’ — was just making her racing debut.
“My first Monaco Grand Prix and it was just as exciting as I expected,” the architect wrote alongside this selfie she shared online.
‘I met the inspiring people who surround this amazing sport.’
Ms Huang, 41, who was previously engaged to Beatrice’s husband, businessman Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, was born and raised in America.
She recently opened up about co-parenting with the King’s niece, saying: ‘Wolfie had two sets of parents trying to help him on both sides, and I think the more the merrier. I feel lucky to have such positive people around him, who really accept him. It didn’t have to be that easy.’
As Cannes Film Festival security guards come under scrutiny after appearing to clash with high-profile stars, fashionista Victoria Magrath has relived her own ‘brutal’ nightmares from the famous French steps.
“Many times they shouted at me, pushed me, brought me, brought me and brought me until I had to give up trying to smile for one photo,” he writes about the staircase of the city’s Palais des Festivals.
“I hope the reaction they got this year might make them a little more lenient.”
Former Bond girl Marilyn Galsworthy — who plunged into a shark tank in The Spy Who Loved Me — is on the road to recovery after falling into a coma earlier this month.
Galsworthy’s model daughter Jasmine Lennard says she was left ‘completely traumatised’ and ‘exhausted’ by the experience. Although the cause of the actress’ coma has not been announced, it is assumed that she has since woken up and is recovering with her daughter.