It is, quite honestly, the sale of a lifetime — certainly of Freddie Mercury’s life, at any rate. Ahead of six individual auctions in September, Sotheby’s 16,000ft gallery has been filled with objects that, together, are the relics of the late Queen singer’s extraordinary existence.
The 1,469 lots going under the hammer are the contents of Mercury’s beloved Kensington Garden Lodge house, which he purchased in 1980, lived in during the latter part of the decade up until his AIDs-related death in 1991, and left in his will to his one-time fiancé, and longtime friend, Mary Austin.
