His crown, his cape, his art collection… Freddie Mercury’s ex-girlfriend puts the Queen singer’s personal treasures up for auction

2023-04-27 13:15:21

Mary Austin will place some 1,500 of the musician’s objects under the hammer at Sotheby’s, including paintings by Picasso and Matisse

Freddie Mercury during a concert at Wembley Stadium in 1986 Denis O’Regan

27/04/2023

Updated at 1:18 p.m.

About 1,500 objects from the private collection of singer Freddie Mercury will be auctioned in September by Sotheby’s, which announced in a statement that one month before being sold, the lots will be will exhibit to the public in his…

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