He’s blessed with a $14.5 million Tuscan-style mansion with seven bedrooms, thirteen and a half bathrooms, a library, movie theater, gym, pool, and chicken coop—not to mention two adorable kids and a bewitching wife who wants you to taste her jam.
But Prince Harry, and indeed his entire neighborhood, may now be in dire need of a ‘washing machine’ – or several – as I’ll explain.
That’s the verdict of those dealing with the “skunk” odor, the “jaw-clenching stench” and the “ungodly stench.”
That’s because cannabis is now legally grown in California – including the farm where Meghan and a crew of 50 will film much of her upcoming home series for Netflix.
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 “industrial-scale” hemp.
The aromatic consequences were, unfortunately, inexorable to the unsuspecting inhabitants, prompting the man to remark that he was thinking “something”. [had] he died in a cellar’ – until, that is, he remembered that he had no cellar.
Convinced that the noxious odor was caused by rodents, he called a pest control officer. “The master came and set up a trap. We waited… and waited.”
Nothing was trapped. Realizing that the air itself was contaminated, the homeowner helped file a lawsuit against two farms — not the one where Meghan will be filming — whose emissions are said to be particularly vile.
This is where washing machines can obviously come to the rescue. The washer is the name for a filtering machine that is claimed to rid the air of 84 percent of the foul smell of cannabis. But it comes at a price – $22,000 or £17,000 each. That’s not all: ten per acre are needed to be effective.
All it takes is for the farmers to use some of their own product – one that Harry, in his Spare memoir, “helped[ed]’ brings him a ‘feeling of relaxation, relief, comfort…’
I hear it’s greener pastures for Idris Elba, who has just returned from a trip to Ibiza where he DJed for stars including models Amy Jackson and Leomie Anderson, pictured together on the right, at the launch of their new vodka, Altius, Gray Goose.
Now I can reveal that the Luther star, whose net worth is estimated at £40m, is turning his attention to a quirky gardening venture.
Newly filed documents reveal that Elba, 51, is launching his own line of fertilizers and will trade under the name Growing Media – with products in the line including peat, bark, rice husks and wood fibers. Alan Titchmarsh, beware.
It certainly wasn’t hard to spot dancing queen Rosamund Pike at Abba Voyage’s second anniversary this week.
The 45-year-old Saltburn star was spotted wearing a 1970s-style sequin jumpsuit at the Abba Arena in east London, featuring avatars of the legendary Swedish pop band. But Abba star Bjorn Ulvaeus was captivated by something else.
“It’s very hard to emotionally understand that we wrote these little songs and it became this,” he said. “I have no idea what it really is that makes people want to listen to the music that was made [over] 30 years ago.”
While Princess Beatrice used to be a frequent visitor to the Monaco Grand Prix, Dara Huang – mother of her stepson ‘Wolfie’ – is yet to make her debut at the race start.
“My first Monaco Grand Prix and it was as exciting as I expected,” the architect captioned this selfie she shared online.
“I met the inspiring people who surround this incredible sport.”
Ms Huang, 41, who was previously engaged to Beatrice’s husband, developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, was born and raised in America.
She recently opened up about co-parenting with the royal 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 me who really embrace him. It didn’t have to be that easy.’
As security at the Cannes Film Festival comes under scrutiny after appearing to clash with major stars, fashionista Victoria Magrath has relived her own ‘brutal’ nightmares from the famous French Steps.
“I was yelled at, shoved, introduced, introduced and introduced many times until I had to give up trying to smile for one photo,” she writes of the city’s Palais des Festivals staircase.
“Hopefully the reprisal they got this year might make them a little more forgiving.”
Former Bond girl Marilyn Galsworthy, who was dunked in 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 “completely traumatized” and “exhausted” by the experience. While the cause of the actress’ coma has not been released, it is believed that she has since woken up and is recovering with her daughter by her side.