Prince Harry attempted a fake accent while on his Canadian holiday — and failed miserably, according to a store owner who had a laugh with the royal when she mistook him for his disgraced uncle.
The Duke was perusing Lilaberry home decor store in Sidney, British Columbia, last month when owner Chris Stephen was struck by his blue eyes.
“I’m looking in these lovely blue eyes with the ginger eyebrows. That’s when I said ‘has anyone ever told you, you look like . . .’ and I was thinking of him, but it came out as Prince Andrew,” Stephen, 60, told the DailyMail.
Prince Harry’s security team then asked for some privacy, and they took the meeting to a back room, where he teased her about the mix-up.
“I can’t believe you said I look like Prince Andrew,” the royal responded.
The shopkeeper gave it back to him, she said.
“I said to him, ‘I’m so sorry, I just had a moment’ And then he said to me, ‘I was trying to disguise my accent and sound Canadian’ And [I] said, ‘Yeah, you didn’t do a very good job,'” Stephen explained.
She gushed over the Brit’s classiness to the Mail, saying “he wasn’t pretentious.”
“His mom would be so proud of him,” Stephen said of Princess Diana. “He wasn’t pushy. He wasn’t offended. He was cheerfully allowing me to do the mom thing.”
Following their six-week holiday on Canada’s Vancouver Island, Harry and wife Meghan Markle made a bombshell announcement they’d be spending more time across the pond in a bid to scale back their royal duties.
Markle is reportedly already back in Canada.
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