EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Freddie Mercury’s girlfriend Mary Austin asks for £1.2 million for
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Freddie Mercury’s girlfriend Mary Austin asks for £1.2 million for the handwritten lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody… but did the Queen singer actually bequeath the iconic scribble to his last boyfriend Jim Hutton?
Freddie Mercury‘s girlfriend Mary Austin, selling the contents of his Garden Lodge, Kensington, mansion, asks £1.2million for the handwritten lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody.
But did the Queen warbler actually bequeath the iconic scribble to his last boyfriend Jim Hutton?
In a 1994 memoir, Irish-born Hutton claimed Freddie promised the lyrics to him before his death.
Hutton wrote: ‘Some of my things remain at Garden Lodge. I clean forgot about the trunk of goodies including the Bohemian Rhapsody lyrics which Freddie got out of storage for me a year before he died.’
While Mary was Mercury’s girlfriend from 1970 until 1976, Hutton was his companion from 1985 until his death in 1991.
Freddie Mercury’s (left) girlfriend Mary Austin (right) is currently selling the contents of his Kensington mansion, Garden Lodge
Hutton and Mary, who was left everything by Freddie, fell out after the singer’s death. She gave him three months to quit Garden Lodge. Hutton died of lung cancer on New Year’s Day 2010.
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Wouldn’t many of his bruised radio victims wish the closing stages of the Ashes had occurred during their pre-breakfast grilling by the BBC Today rottweiler?
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David TC Davies (pictured) used to be an amateur boxer under the name the Tory Tornado
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