Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have approached several large hotels, including the Hilton and the Holiday Inn, asking them to replace old copies of Gideon’s Bible with copies of Prince Harry’s autobiography Spare.
The bible is generally left in all rooms for visitors to read and have a good laugh at when they are staying away from home. It is full of funny stories like how one guy got accidentally eaten by a whale and how someone else was told by God to kill one of his sons, only to be stopped at the last minute, when he was about to gut his younger boy, and told by God that it was all just a joke and he’d been punked.
However, everyone knows about these stories and the Sussexes is counting on people demanding new ways to be entertained. “In my book Spare”, Harry told a press conference who had paid $1,000 an hour to see him, “I tell of how I accidentally froze my penis. Ha, ha, ra, ra, ra! And of how I snorted so much cocaine that I needed a police escort back to the brothel I had been staying in.”
Some hotels have said they won’t be replacing Bibles with Spares. Indeed, some hostelries in France and Spain are said to be trying to get rid of his books, left by British tourists. One manager said he had tried putting Spare in a bedside table drawer but had regretted it, after a group of monks on a murder mystery weekend package had mistaken the book for the Bible and disgraced themselves copying some of Harry’s debauchery, believing they were following the teachings of the Old Testament.
