Prince Harry's autobiography causing chaos abroad as hotels rush to get rid of unwanted books
Prince Harry's autobiography is causing chaos abroad as hotels rush to get rid of the unwanted book.
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Prince Harry's autobiography is causing chaos abroad as hotels rush to get rid of the unwanted book.
More than 100 copies of Spare have been left abandoned in resorts across Europe as tour operator struggles to give them away.
On The Beach, the online tour operator, said it has received many discarded copies of the Duke of Sussex'a autobiography from resorts in Spain, Turkey and Greece.
Zoe Harris, the company’s chief customer officer, said her team had "never witnessed anything quite like it".
Britons have been leaving Spare by the poolside, in their rooms or on shelves in the reception of hotels.
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Britons have been leaving Spare by the poolside, in their rooms or on shelves in the reception of hotels.
On The Beach is planning to give away the surplus books through social media as libraries and local bookstores are refusing to take the discarded copies.
Harris said: "Lost property offices in our most popular resorts are brimming with copies of Spare, and we had a couple of Prince Harry’s books sent to us from a hotel that some of our customers had holidayed to.
"We thought it was quite funny at first.
"But over the past few months, several other hotels have been sending the books back. Now we have bookcases full of them.
"I’m asking hotels to please stop sending them over, otherwise we’ll never get rid of them all."
The Duke of Sussex released his autobiography in January 2023 and took part in several TV interviews, where he was critical of the Royal Family, to promote the book.
Prince Harry took swipes at Camilla, Princess Kate and his brother Prince William in his memoir.
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The Duke of Sussex released Spare in January 2023
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A source has now claimed that Meghan Markle regrets not taking a more active role in the book as the couple has been labelled "professional whinners" off the back of its release.
The source told Heat: "Meghan can now see that, whether it's fair or not, they are being viewed as these professional whiners and it's not as simple as her distancing herself, because she has to be seen as fully supportive of Harry.
"She's now regretting that she wasn't more hands-on or involved when he was putting his book together.
"This theory that she micromanaged what he wrote or had any say in the manuscript is totally wrong – it was Harry's book and she let him get on with it.
"The same went for his interviews and promo tours – that was evidenced by the fact she let him do those by himself and made a point not to interfere."