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Freddie Mercury’s Final Days Are Revealed by His Closest Friend in a Rare Interview: “It Got Chaotic”

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Mary Austin opens up about the invasive press frenzy, their decades-long love story and the trove of lyric sheets he left behind

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Freddie Mercury and Mary Austin were a couple for seven years before he outed himself as a homosexual. Now the 75-year-old has published lyrics that she found in his house. A conversation about the burden of his inheritance and love beyond death.

·Munich, Germany
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Mary Austin, ex-girlfriend and principal heir to Freddie Mercury, recalled in an interview with the Guardian her life with the Queen's star, at a time when she prepares to edit a new book, with original lyrics from Queen's songs and stories of life to two with Mercury

·Paço de Arcos, Portugal
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Inherited from most of Queen's vocalist's fortune, ex-girlfriend remembered the British press's cruel vigil in the artist's last days of life.

Mary Austin, Freddie Mercury's ex-fiancée and closest confidant, opens up about their relationship, the singer's final moments and the decades after his death in an in-depth interview with The Guardian published yesterday. The occasion is, among other things, that Mercury, the lead singer of Queen, would have turned eighty on September 5. As is known, he died of AIDS-related illnesses in 1991, at the age of just 45.

Notebooks, sketches and previously unpublished material, including alternative or discarded verses to songs by Freddie Mercury.

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swr.online broke the news on Tuesday, September 1, 2026.
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