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The “Garden Lodge” in London: Looking for a new owner

Photo: Barney Hindle / AP

Live where the Queen frontman once lived: This wish could come true for a fan of the rock band - if they have the necessary financial means.

The real estate agency Knight Frank is offering the house where Freddie Mercury lived for the last decade of his life for around 30 million pounds (approx. 35 million euros).

It is the so-called Garden Lodge, a brick building in the posh London district of Kensington.

Mercury bought the house in 1980 - he allegedly paid the then price of more than 500,000 pounds in cash. "I saw the house, fell in love with it, and within half an hour it was mine," the singer says in "Freddie Mercury: The biography« quoted.

»The most wonderful memorial site«

He had the building renovated and furnished it with valuable works of art, including those by Pablo Picasso.

"I like to be surrounded by beautiful things," Mercury said.

“I want to live the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.”

However, this “exquisite clutter” is not included in the current offer.

In 1991, Mercury died in the house of pneumonia as a result of his AIDS illness.

He left the villa and its furnishings to his former partner and close friend, Mary Austin.

"This house was the most wonderful memorial because every room radiated so much love and warmth," Austin said in a statement.

»It was a pleasure to live there and I have many fond memories of it.«

And further: "Now that it is empty, I feel transported back to the time when we first visited it." Since then, the house has been "a place of peace, a true artist's home."

"Now it's time to pass on this feeling of peace to the next person."

Already sold numerous possessions

Austin sold numerous of the Queen musician's possessions last year - including a garden door sprayed with graffiti.

This was auctioned by the auction house Sotheby's for more than 400,000 pounds.

Part of the proceeds from the auction were intended for charity.

Mercury's Queen bandmate Brian May had criticized the sale of the legacies.

He wrote on Instagram: "Tomorrow...Freddie's most intimate personal items and writings, which have been part of what we have shared for so many years, will go under the hammer to be sold to the highest bidder and dispersed forever.

I can't look.

This is too sad for us, his closest friends and family.”

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