Luis Fernando Romo
Updated Wednesday, April 3, 2024-21:33
Legacy Freddie Mercury's estate remains poisoned 29 years later
Album The 25 curiosities of the life (and death) of Freddie Mercury
It only took one visit for
Freddie Mercury
to decide to
buy his first large property,
a mansion in the exclusive London neighborhood of
Kensington
called
Garden Lodge
. He did so in 1980, paying almost
$630,000
to one of the members of the
Hoare banking
family and lived there until his death in 1991. It
was inherited by his first great love,
Mary Austin (72), whose relationship became a friendship. romantic after confessing that he was homosexual. For the Queen leader, she was like
his de facto partner.
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After having lived in it for
more than three decades
and having preserved it so that it did not lose the singer's spirit, Austin assures that the time has come to
pass the baton to another owner.
In a public statement, Austin highlighted that "this house has been
the most glorious box of memories
because it has so much love and warmth in every room" and specifies that "since Freddie and I crossed the legendary green door it has been a place of peace,
"the home of a true artist,
and now it's time to entrust that sense of peace to the next person."
One of the sides of Mercury's house in Kensington.GTRES
The Knight Frank real estate agency is willing to listen to
offers exceeding
$38 million. In her will, Mercury made clear his final wishes for the love of her life: "You would have been my wife, and I would have
been yours anyway."
The most spectacular space is the
double-height living room
completed by a wraparound gallery that serves as
a library
and bar with views of the
singer-songwriter's living room and grand piano
.
Additionally, another of the most beautiful corners is
the Japanese room
which consists of a living room that overlooks the
Japanese-style garden
that Mercury helped create with magnolia trees, topiaries and water features. The property sits on
4,000 square meters
of landscaped land. A luxury for the center of London and even more so if we take into account that the mansion is located a
short distance from
Kensington Palace where the square meter is one of the highest in the city.
There are practically no
images of the interior
of this Neo Georgian style mansion since in this way curious interested parties will be forced to
deposit a type of deposit
that proves that they have the necessary funds for its purchase.
Mercury's piano that reached 2.2 million at auction.GTRES
Aware that she was going to get rid of it, Mary Austin organized an
auction with Sotheby's with more than 1,400 objects
from the
We Will Rock You
singer that reached million-dollar figures. For example, the
Yamaha baby grand piano
with which he composed
Bohemiam Rhapsody
reached 2.2 million dollars, the handwritten song of the same name sold for 1.7 million, the final figure through
the green gate of the garden
where fans left countless of messages of love and condolences was $521,000 and the
Cartier onyx and diamond ring
that Elton John (77) gave her was sold for $344,000.
Mercury always liked
to surround himself with beautiful
collector's items. For this reason, engravings by
Pablo Picasso, Dalí and Marc Chagall
hung on the walls of his mansion
, and in the eight bedrooms there were pieces purchased from antique shops. In total, 50.4 million
dollars
were raised
. The singer died at the age of 45 in 1991 due to AIDS.