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…’