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Freddie Freeman Married Chelsea Goff | Freddie Freeman Wife Say Yes To The DressIn the canicule afore his death, his already agile anatomy now rendered acutely breakable by Aids, Freddie Mercury fabricated one final appeal of the woman he declared as ‘the adulation of my life’. That she, and she alone, should aggregate his ashes afterwards his burial and actuate of them at a clandestine area never to be disclosed.
For added than two decades Mary Austin has abided by Mercury’s wishes and kept the abode of his ashes a secret. Not alike his age-old parents were told.
Since the afterlife of Queen’s baroque frontman, age-old 45, in November 1991, belief has been rife. Were the ashes taken to his built-in Zanzibar? Or active beneath a blooming timberline in the Japanese garden of his London mansion?
Mary Austin (right) was trusted with the area of Freddie Mercury's ashes. She has said that she will never acquaint anyone area they are, as was his wish
When a plinth erected at Kensal Green cemetery in West London address his absolute name – Farrokh Bulsara – was apparent advanced this month, his countless of admirers hoped their hero’s final comatose abode had assuredly been located.
But Mary, the woman who aggregate abundant of her activity with the ambiguous showman, and to whom he larboard his arresting £20 million Edwardian abode in West London as able-bodied as the aggregate of his £9 million fortune, is categoric on the matter: ‘Freddie is actually not in that cemetery,’ she says.
Mercury, acclaimed as abundant for his boundless affairs as his animated date persona, died from AIDS at a time back it was feared and misunderstood. Mary says that aloof afore his death, he was abashed his comatose abode would be defiled: ‘He didn’t appetite anyone aggravating to dig him up as has happened to some acclaimed people. Admirers can be acutely obsessive. He capital it to abide a abstruse and it will abide so.’
She kept the ashes in an urn in Freddie’s bedchamber for two years and again staged an busy active exercise, bottomward out of the abode abandoned to backpack out his aftermost request.
Mary was larboard with Mercury's millions, but has additionally had to accord with his legions of anxious followers
To abstain prying eyes, she didn’t alike booty her driver. ‘I didn’t appetite anyone to doubtable that I was accomplishing annihilation added than what I would commonly do. I said I was activity for a facial. I had to be convincing. It was actual adamantine to acquisition the moment.
‘One morning, I aloof sneaked out of the abode with the urn. It had to be like a accustomed day so the agents wouldn’t doubtable annihilation – because agents gossip. They aloof cannot abide it. But cipher will anytime apperceive area he is active because that was his wish.’
A few canicule beforehand, Mary arrive Mercury’s parents to the abode to say a few prayers in his memory. But not alike they were told area his ashes ultimately lie.
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Chelsea Freeman, Freddie Freeman's Wife: 5 Fast Facts You Need To Know | Freddie Freeman Wife Say Yes To The DressIt was an affecting and stress-filled mission for Mary, who lived with Mercury on and off for 20 years. The years back his afterlife accept been lonely. As we sit in the music allowance of the sprawling mansion, which still retains the admirable amplitude and baroque adornment that Mercury demanded, the acuity by admirers continues alfresco the property’s ambit wall. For abounding of them it is a circadian crusade and they abeyance to pin up missives of constant love.
Mary gazes through the window, animated softly. Sinking into a costly daybed she again casts her eye about the allowance – demography in its beauteous arrangement of admired antiques, art works and Louis XV furniture. ‘Why would I appetite to change it?’ she says. ‘It is his aftertaste and style. It’s beautiful. His attendance is everywhere.’
The admirable piano – at which Mercury composed abounding of his greatest hits including Bohemian Rhapsody – dominates the room. On top, sit several silver-framed photographs of Mary and Mercury, in the aboriginal even of romance, bedlam acquiescently together. Afterwards six years together, he came out as gay, demography a beck of lovers as his activity descended into audacious promiscuity. But his adulation for Mary never waned.
That he larboard the aggregate of his affluence to her acquired abysmal and absinthian acerbity – not atomic amid Mercury’s above bandage members. She says he warned her the bequest she would accede could become a burden. ‘And he was right,’ she says, her features, still brownie at 62, basic a abysmal frown.
Mary at Freddie Mercury's burial with Queen bagman Roger Taylor and Dave Clark
After Freddie died she acquainted out of her depth. She suffered several austere illnesses and struggled emotionally to cope with the inheritance. ‘I begin myself thinking, “Oh Freddie, you’ve larboard me too abundant and too abundant to accord with as well.” I acquainted I couldn’t alive up to it. He’d warned me that the abode was activity to be added of a claiming than I realised. I’m beholden he did because I hit annoyance arch on – like a Japanese ammo train. Actual painful.
‘I don’t anticipate the actual associates of Queen accept anytime accommodated themselves to it. I don’t accept it. Because to me it’s artery and mortar. I try never to be anxious or backbiting people.
Mary was larboard a arresting £20million Edwardian abode in West London
‘Freddie was actual acceptable to them in the aftermost years of his activity and I don’t anticipate they accepted that generosity. I don’t anticipate they accepted or recognised what Freddie had larboard them. He larboard the bandage a division allotment of the aftermost four albums – which he didn’t charge to do. And I never apprehend from them. Afterwards Freddie died, they aloof wandered off.’
Everywhere, she confesses, there are memories of Mercury. ‘You apprehend a specific song and it makes you feel emotional. We lived those 20-odd years together. Beneath the aforementioned roof. Calm emotionally.’
During that time she witnessed the adventure of Mercury proposing marriage, the affliction of accident him back he realised he was gay and the affliction of nursing him through his final days. There is one decidedly able anamnesis of that time that still haunts her. As his activity ebbed away, Mercury watched DVD footage of his accomplished performances.
‘On one break he angry to me and said sadly, “To anticipate I acclimated to be so handsome.” I got up and had to leave the room,’ she recalls. ‘It was too upsetting. We were never accustomed to get affecting about him and that was hard. But I knew if I sat there I would accept been in tears. Back I alternate I aloof sat bottomward as if annihilation had happened. But for that moment, he bent me off guard.’
Mary was 19 back she aboriginal met Mercury in the aboriginal Seventies. Built-in into an bankrupt family in Battersea, South London – her ancestor formed as a trimmer for wallpaper specialists and her mother was a calm for a baby aggregation – her adolescence wasn’t easy. Both parents were deafened and announced through assurance accent and lip-reading.
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The Ritzy Glitzy: Say Yes- Atlanta | Freddie Freeman Wife Say Yes To The DressMary was a PR at the fashionable Biba abundance in Kensington, West London, back she encountered Mercury, again 24, at the clothes arrest he and Queen bagman Roger Taylor ran in adjacent Kensington market.
Initially, she begin Mercury alarming but was additionally absorbed by this ‘wild-looking aesthetic musician’. She says: ‘He was like no one I had met before. He was actual assured – article I accept never been. We grew together. I admired him and it went on from there.’
The brace aggregate a bedsit and again confused into a bashful one-bedroom collapsed in adjacent Holland Road. They were acquiescently blessed but hadn’t discussed a approaching together. ‘Then, back I was 23 he gave me a big box on Christmas Day. Central was addition box, again addition and so it went on. It was like one of his antic games. Eventually, I begin a admirable afflict arena central the aftermost baby box.
‘I looked at it and was speechless. I bethink thinking, “I don’t accept what’s activity on.” It wasn’t what I’d accepted at all. So I asked him, “Which duke should I put this on?” And he said, “Ring finger, larboard hand.” And again he said, “Because, will you ally me?” I was shocked. It aloof so wasn’t what I was expecting. I aloof whispered, “Yes. I will.”’
The showman proposed to Mary but, accurate to character, afflicted his apperception aback on a whim
But, abrupt as ever, he afflicted his apperception on a whim. ‘Sometime later,’ she says. ‘I spotted a admirable aged bells dress in a baby shop. And as Freddie hadn’t said annihilation added about marrying, the alone way that I could analysis the baptize was to say, “Is it time I bought the dress?” But he said no. He had gone off the abstraction and it never happened.
‘I was aghast but I had a activity it wasn’t activity to happen. Things were accepting actual complicated and the atmosphere amid us was alteration a lot. I knew the autograph was on the wall, but what writing? I wasn’t actually sure.
‘I never questioned him about it. But I anticipate he charge accept been starting to catechism himself. Accepting affiliated was apparently article he wanted. But again he began to admiration if it would be fair on me.’ The adumbration that Mercury was gay concluded their concrete relationship, but Mary has consistently been beholden that Freddie one day had the adventuresomeness to altercate his alteration animal feelings.
‘If he hadn’t been such a appropriate animal actuality and told me I wouldn’t be here,’ she says candidly. ‘If he had gone forth active a bisexual activity afterwards cogent me, I would accept apprenticed Aids and died.’
Mary started to apprehension he was blockage out afterwards and afterwards and anticipation he was accepting an activity with addition woman. Acutely hurt, she feared their accord was over. But one day he told her he had article important to say – article that would change their accord forever.
Gazing bottomward at her lap, Mary says softly: ‘I’ll never balloon that moment. Actuality a bit naive, it had taken me a while to realise the truth. Afterwards he acquainted acceptable about accepting assuredly told me he was bisexual. Although I do bethink adage to him at the time, “No Freddie, I don’t anticipate you are bisexual. I anticipate you are gay.”’
Freddie Mercury with Queen guitarist Brian May arena guitars in advanced of Roger Taylor's drums in the 1980s
Freddie, she recalls, hugged her and told her that, whatever happened, he capital her to consistently be allotment of his life. For a spell they acclimatized into a routine, admitting anarchistic life. Back they threw banquet parties she would sit on one ancillary of Mercury, his latest admirer on the other.
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Chelsea Freeman, Freddie Freeman's Wife: 5 Fast Facts You Need To Know | Freddie Freeman Wife Say Yes To The DressEventually, Mary absitively to move out of their flat, and Mercury’s music aggregation bought her a £300,000 apartment.
Mary becomes reflective. ‘The sad affair was that if he had been added accurate in his affairs afterwards on, he would still be actuality now. With advances in avant-garde anesthetic things are altered now.’
As it was, Mary could alone watch from the sidelines as her above lover accepted a agrarian affiliate of his life. ‘I anticipate Freddie accomplished a date area he anticipation he was invincible,’ she says. ‘He assertive himself he was accepting a acceptable time and maybe, in part, he was. But I anticipate in allotment he wasn’t.
Freddie Mercury with his above adherent and constant acquaintance Mary Austin
‘And again it was too late. The alone actuality who could accept fabricated a aberration was Freddie. But I anticipate he’d chock-full actuality honest with himself. Abounding of his alleged accompany were there for the chargeless tickets, the chargeless booze, the chargeless drugs, the chargeless meal, the account and, of course, the big-ticket gifts.’
Mercury kept the attributes of his affliction a abstruse until anon afore his death. Back he told her he advised to leave his beautiful home to her, she approved to animate him to abode it in a trust. ‘He said, “If things had been different, you would accept been my wife and this would accept been castigation anyway.”’
Mary had two sons; Richard, who Freddie knew, and Jamie, built-in anon afterwards his death. Her accord with their ancestor didn’t last. In time, Mary met addition man – who she married. But the alliance faltered afterwards bristles years and they afar a decade ago.
It has consistently been Mercury who was the accurate adulation of her life. Her memories are never far away.
‘Freddie was fun. The alone times I saw him absolutely austere were back alive on songs. The abode would be absolutely still, but abounding of a quiet energy.
‘But Freddie’s personality was consistently there, whatever the mood. It was consistently moving, influencing the active of the house. It was like the aggregate button on the radio. There are not a lot of bodies who can airing into a allowance and there’s article they accompany into it which makes it balmy and genial. And then, back they leave, it goes.’
The accurate Mercury, she believes, was a complicated admixture of self-doubt and self-confidence. ‘I anticipate Bohemian Rhapsody was the axis point. That fabricated him realise that he didn’t charge to agnosticism himself. Alike admitting he was told the radio stations wouldn’t comedy it because it was too long, there was no way Freddie was activity to cut it.’
As admirers abide to army to abode area their idol lived, Mary understands their admiration to apperceive his final comatose place.
But she is acquainted she fabricated a abiding affiance to him. ‘I never betrayed Freddie in his lifetime,’ she says. ‘And I’ll never abandon him now.’
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