I first met Britannia’s Jamaica-born Lady Colin Campbell long before they built London Bridge. We’ve also visited one another when she did books on Princess Diana.
“Georgie,” we call her, lives in assorted castles, knows everyone who’s someone in London and writes about no one who’s just anyone.
On June 25, Simon & Schuster publishes her “Meghan and Harry: The Real Story.”
She says Meghan wants to run for president of the US someday and that “England doesn’t do it for her.” She describes her as “an operator… a fame addict”… who’s “had a series of men.”
Page 261 states “Meghan’s whole life is an act.” Harry? “was desperate to meet someone”… “he’s not the swiftest”… “he’s a prop.” Page 217 calls him “pathetic.”
I know that this book’s been through more layers of lawyers than Harvey Weinstein. Still, you should hold it wearing gloves.
Lady Colin Campbell knows from scandals. She’s bounced through a few in her colorful life. She told me on the phone: “I know the lot. The royals. The courtiers. They’re friends. I’ve attended their parties. Been to their homes. And I’ve taken care to be positive and even handed, although Meghan’s thrown the whole British family under the bus.”
Also from Her Ladyship’s mouth, which is as tart as her pen: “This person is no more suited to royal life than Angelina Jolie would be to competitive boxing. She has inflated herself beyond natural entitlement. Since she always wanted to be a star, she has this propensity for exaggeration.
“As for Harry, he should have been instructive. This nonsense that she didn’t at first know so much about him… I mean, please. She’d looked him up in books. And she pats him like, ‘good boy.’ She even answers for him.”
Campbell also writes that Mrs. Harry planned financial deals for herself from the beginning. “She went into the marriage intending to embark on commercial enterprises. That’s something forbidden to the royals.”
Our trash, his treasure
Lest you think I bring you just trash: NYC Sanitation employee Nelson Molina outfitted two floors of a 20,000-square-foot garbage garage. He’s stuffed it with treasures found on his 96th to 110th streets, First through Fifth avenues route. Toys, discarded posters, vintage electronics, art, memorabilia. Some is even high-class stuff.
Mr. Molina: “My mother told me, ‘If somebody can use it, don’t throw it away, put it away.’ ” The new Andy War-haul.
Now hear this…
Comes now the thriller film “7500.” Just the number “7500.” Joseph Gordon-Levitt, off the big screen since “Snowden” in 2016, plays a pilot under siege. All shot in a decommissioned commercial airplane’s real cockpit … Sweet offbeat Brit thing “Sometimes Always Never.” Bill Nighy plays a widower on a search for his missing son. After the kid stormed off following an argument over a game of — ready? — Scrabble … And we got us documentaries. Olympia Dukakis. “Olympia” premieres July 9 on ABCinemaNOW.com. Olympia, whose 89th birthday is Saturday, once said: “If no one hires you because of your foreign- sounding name, start your own theater company” … Also coming July 14 is Kaye Ballard: The Show Goes On!” about the singer, actress and comedian who left us in 2019 at age 93.
One local to another: “Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.
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