RICHARD JOHNSON: Meghan Markle’s upcoming book expected to be more of a bombshell than Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’

Meghan Markle thinks her book will sell better that Prince Harry’s “Spare.” Publishing insiders say she has been keeping a secret journal since she met her husband and is using those diaries as the basis for the book she will release within two years.

The tome, expected to fetch upwards of $30 million, will disclose more details of how she feels mistreated by the Royal Family.

The Duchess is not going to the coronation of King Charles on May 6 because, as palace courtiers whisper, she traded her absence in exchange for the official recognition of the titles of Prince and Princess for her two children.

But you can be sure Prince Harry will debrief her about every perceived snub.

The Duchess will come to New York City on May 16 to accept a Women of Vision Award from her friend Gloria Steinem’s Ms. Foundation, which recognizes “powerhouse grassroots leaders.”

Markle’s presence has already ensured a sellout at the Ziegfeld Theater.

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How many New Yorkers would knowingly move into a haunted apartment because it’s cheap? I’m betting plenty.

Well, that’s what happens to a couple in the new horror film by director Allan Piper entitled “eVil Sublet.”

They find their dream apartment in the East Village (aka the eVil) and they’re, like, “Who cares if it’s cursed if the rent is cheap and its got an eat-in kitchen?”

But when the bad roommate situation of living with murderous ghosts becomes too much for them, they must enlist the help of friends to escape the “eVil” in their sublet.

Enter “All in the Family” legend Sally Struthers, who stars in her first-ever full length horror movie as the mysterious leaseholder who rents out the haunted flat.

Struthers told me she is easily frightened. “One thing happens to me unexplainable and I’m out of there and living in Minnesota.”

Though she hasn’t seen the finished film yet, Piper has promised to hold her hand when she does.

“I’d rather be part of the scaring than be scared,” Struthers said. “Horror films frighten me. And then they stay with me. They’re like a side-of-the-road [car] accident.”

The movie premieres at the Coney Island Film Festival on May 6, because scenes were shot at the 123-year-old Wonder Wheel and inside the Spook-A-Rama, one of the nation’s oldest operating dark rides.

“Our movie has freaks, sword swallowers, a creepy ventriloquist doll, and a monstrous clown-like apparition,” says Piper. “We could’ve debuted the movie at larger festivals but since we filmed a big part of the movie here, it made the most sense.”

Piper, who lives in the haunted apartment where the movie filmed, said the neighborhood is so weird, “When the zombie apocalypse happens in the East Village, we won’t know it.”

Struthers said, “I’m 5 feet tall and in my 70s. I kept telling myself, there is nothing to be afraid of.”

The star and her director will be on the Anthony Cumia Show podcast on May 8.

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Drake wasn’t happy when his voice was generated by a computer using artificial intelligence to produce “Heart on My Sleeve.”

His record label, Universal Music Group, soon had the song deleted.

So now maybe Drake knows how Obrafour feels. Drake allegedly sampled a 20-year-old hit by the Ghanaian artist on “Calling My Name” without permission, and now Obrafour is suing for $10 million.

“Drake would not have done this to someone like LL Cool J,” Obrafour stated. “But it appears that Drake didn’t have this respect for an artist like myself from Africa.”

Obrafour’s lawyer Imran Ansari, of Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins, told me, “He hopes to send a message to mainstream international artists that you cannot simply take from an artist who may be lesser known, or in another country, without giving credit where credit is due.”

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Susan Silver, an original writer of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” was eager to see “Being Mary Tyler Moore,” which will air on HBO in May.

She had given a filmed interview for the documentary. But much to her surprise and disappointment, it turned out that all the interviews (including hers), were used only as voice-overs.

Nonetheless, Silver was excited the producers used the picture of her from a “TV Guide” article showing her in hot pants, since her memoir is called “Hot Pants in Hollywood.”

She hastens to point out “that was my wardrobe, not my behavior” ... despite the subtitle, “Sex, Secrets & Sitcoms.”

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Brooke Shields’ 16-year-old daughter Grier will lead Audrey Gruss’ Hope for Depression Research Foundation’s Teen Race of Hope at Hudson River Park on May 21.

Not only does Grier follow in her mother’s footsteps as a teenage beauty, but her mother was also honored by the foundation, along with Anderson Cooper, Michael Phelps, and Aly Raisman in recent years.

Last week, psychiatrist Dr. Samantha Boardman spoke about mental health and children at the foundation’s event at Veronica Beard’s store on Madison Ave.

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Kimberly and Steven Rockefeller Jr. gave a party for their 23-year-old daughter Kayla Rockefeller to launch her new jewelry collection Kayla Jaclyne at the new Mediterranean restaurant White Olive.

Among the socialites on the dance floor were Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, Baroness Milly De Cabrol, Isabelle Bscher, Anne Dexter-Jones, Julia Haart, Libbie Mugrabi, Patrick McMullan, Liliana Cavendish, Christian Rockefeller and Steven Rockefeller III.

Kayla, whose great-grandfather was Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, will give a portion of all sales to Rising Ground NYC.

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The lunch crowd at Michael’s on Wednesday included David Byrne of Talking Heads, hosted by Michael Huppe of SoundExchange, plus Blythe Danner with painter Kim McCarty, and former Time Warner chief Jeff Bewkes with Michael Solomon of Telepictures fame.

One COVID-weary regular said, “Things seem to be picking up ... finally!”

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Restaurant critic Mimi Sheraton, who died at 97, was remembered fondly at Frank E. Campbell funeral chapel on Madison Ave.

Nobu boss Drew Nieporent — who spoke with her in her last months, while she was dealing with food poisoning — said she made him a promise that her epitaph would be, “It must have been something I ate.”