Prince Harry has a future in Christmas tree sales if he wants one.
The Duke of Sussex found himself being pressed into service the other day by an excited 5-year-old boy who wanted help finding the perfect tree, the Daily Mail reported.
Harry, 36, and wife Megan Markle, 39, had stopped at the pop-up stand to buy holiday decorations for their $14.7 million estate. This Christmas will be first for the couple in California since they distanced themselves from the royal family nearly a year ago.
The mix-up took place Tuesday at Big Wave Dave’s Christmas Trees & Pumpkin Patch, which set up in tents outside a Macy’s in Santa Barbara, not far from Harry and Meghan’s fancy digs in Montecito.
They had arranged to have the place all to themselves, but the boy and his parents hadn’t quite wrapped up their shopping.
A real Christmas tree salesman, James Almaguer, witnessed the case of mistaken identity.
“There was one family in there and their stoked little son ran through trees up to Harry and asked if he worked here not knowing who that is,” Almaguer tweeted.
Then, the couple went about their business, buying a tree and leaving a good impression.
“They seem like very nice people honestly,” Almaguer said. “Meghan sounds very kind and Harry sounded and acted like a chill lad honestly.”
After Christmas, the couple and their 18-month-old son, Archie, will fly to the UK so they can quarantine two weeks in Frogmore Cottage before Meghan appears in court Jan. 11 for her breach-of-copyright lawsuit against the Mail on Sunday, Vanity Fair reported. The Duchess of Sussex is suing the tabloid for publishing a letter she wrote to her father, Thomas Markle.