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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were reportedly shopping for their Christmas tree in Santa Barbara when an excited child approached them and mistaken the Duke of Sussex for an employee.
Christmas tree vendor James Almaguer, who works at Big Dave’s Christmas Trees & Pumpkin Patch, said the lot was supposed to be empty for the couple, but they missed a family.
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Prince Harry has reportedly been mistaken for a Christmas tree vendor.
“Meghan and Prince Harry came to my work today and we sold them their Christmas tree,” he tweeted – “It was anticlimactic, but a very, very interesting experience.”
A boy approached Harry for help.
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“There was a family there and their excited little son ran through the trees to Harry and asked him if he worked here, not knowing who he was,” said Almaguer, who had nothing bad to say about the couple.
“They seem like really nice people, honestly.
“Meghan sounds really nice and Harry sounded and acted like a laid back guy, honestly. I’m so glad they liked our trees. We got the best we could. So thankful.”
The peddler of trees set up tents in the parking lot of a Macy’s department store, located about 12 miles from the couple’s sprawling Montecito home.
The couple will spend their first American Christmas in a Russian oligarch’s 9-bedroom, 16-bathroom former home with their 18-month-old son Archie this December, then travel to Frogmore Cottage in the UK days later. , according to Vanity fair.
That will give them time to isolate themselves for two weeks before the start of Meghan’s High Court case against him. Sunday mail, which begins on January 11.
This will be the second year in a row that Prince Harry and Meghan have spent the holidays apart from the Queen, 94 and the rest of the royal family. They reportedly spent the previous Christmas in Canada with Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland.
Prior to their separation from the Crown, the Sussexes had spent every Christmas since their engagement in 2017 at the Queen’s estate at Sandringham.
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