THE tour operator managers On The Beach they don’t know what to do with it. “This has never happened before,” they commented when they realized the number of copies of Shoot abandoned on the edges of swimming poolsin the rooms, receptions and restaurants of the resorts in Spain, Turkey and Greece managed by the online agency. “We are inundated with Prince Harry’s books.”
Prince Harry humiliated again: his book abandoned as waste paper
The so far abandoned copies of Shoot in hotels across Europe there would be hundreds and at the moment they lie in the closets of the popular travel agency, waiting for its managers to be able to make a decision on how to get rid of them. And in the meantime the controversial autobiography was named by the British media as the most rejected of the summer.
Who reads Shoot on vacation, then he doesn’t bring it home
For Prince Harry, already smitten by recent loss of contract with Spotify, that’s one humiliation too many. Her autobiography, which came out last January and immediately became a bestseller all over the world, causing scandal with her harsh accusations against the Royal Family, does not in fact seem to entice readers to put it back in their suitcase and take it home after the holiday.
“Spare”, the autobiography of Prince Harry, in bookstores since last January (Getty Images)
The still unwanted copies of Shoot
To get rid of the abandoned copies, at first On The Beach he had contacted bookstores and libraries, but all of them refused to take the book. Tour operator managers they will now try with ads on social media, but meanwhile they have asked hotels to stop sending copies to their offices. “At this rate we won’t know where to put them anymore,” they complained. “Hotels will have to try to get rid of it themselves.”
And there is also the ironic video of the employees
A fun video made by On The Beach was posted on Instagram, immediately garnering thousands of views. In it, the book is used to play ping pong, to improvise shelves and stools, and its pages are even used as toilet paper. A group of office workers complain about how the tome – with Harry on the cover – torment them: «It’s always there, every day» exclaims a desperate young man at one point. “That face gives me nightmares at night.”
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