Freddie Mercury’s best friend Mary Austin says it was ‘really difficult’ to inherit his fortune

The best friend and former fiancée of Queen icon Freddie Mercury, Mary Austin, has said it has “been really difficult” to manage the huge inheritance she received after his death. Mercury died at the age of 45 in 1991, from bronchial pneumonia which was related to his AIDS diagnosis. He and Austin got engaged in…

He was Queen’s flamboyant frontman. She was his shy girlfriend, dreaming of marriage until they both realised he preferred men. Thirty-five years after his death, in the week he would have turned 80, Mary Austin talks about their unbreakable bond There were four silver trunks in Mary Austin’s attic that she packed in t

In her book of his unseen archives and handwritten lyrics alongside memories of his personal and creative life, the singer's one-time fiancée and lifelong friend paints a revealing portrait

Freddie Mercury's best friend, Mary Austin, who almost married the Queen icon, has spoken out about the troubled star, including the moment he told her he had HIV

My life with Freddie Mercury — by the best friend he nearly married  The Times