RICHARD EDEN: Could this be a costly whiff of trouble at Sussexes pad?
He’s blessed with a AUD$37.4m 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’.
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By continuing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.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 — AUD$32,000-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…”
