Prince Harry was so taken with a Devon pub he visited during a stag weekend that he jokingly offered to pay the landlady £650,000 to buy the picturesque drinking hole.
The royal had journeyed to the seaside town of Brixham in Devon for one of his friend’s stag dos, with the group popping into the Maritime Inn for a few drinks.
And Harry enjoyed his time in the pub, which overlooks Brixham Harbour, so much that he joked with landlady Pat Seddon that he would buy it from her.
Mrs Seddon, 75, said that when the Prince and his friends told her how much they liked her pub, which boasts a distinctive frontage featuring part of a mock up galleon above the ivy-clad porchway, she quipped he could snap it up it for £650,000.
She said: ‘Somebody from his group called out, “what a lovely pub,” so I said “you can have it if you want”.
‘Then Prince Harry said, “how much” and I jokingly said “six and a half hundred thousand” and he said, “oh I’ve got that in my pocket”.
Mrs Seddon has been behind the bar of the the Maritime Inn for 33 years and became a minor celebrity herself when she featured in Fish Town, the Sky TV series about the port.
She said that Harry had visited the pub, which also features hundreds of decorative jugs hanging from the beams of the ceiling in is located in the town’s aptly-named King Street, with a group of around 14 friends on Friday evening.
Mrs Seddon said that her royal visitor had been sporting a cap to cover his famous red hair, but she had immediately spotted who he was, Daily Mail informs.
