If you ’re a rooter of both Queen and that crazy little thing calledreal estate — and you have a bottomless depository financial institution account — anEnglish acres has just get on the marketthat will , that will , sway you .
AsTopTenRealEstateDeals.com reports , Freddie Mercury ’s former abode in Kensington , London , is up for sale . The Queen frontman leave behind the home to his former mate , Mary Austin .
The relationship Mercury had with Austin was a powerful one , with the artist oncestating : “ All my fan need me why they could n’t replace Mary , but it ’s but impossible . The only friend I ’ve got is Mary , and I do n’t want anybody else . To me , she was my common - law wife . To me , it was a marriage . We believe in each other , that ’s enough for me . ”
And Mercury put his money where his oral fissure was , leaving Austin a Kensington domicile that is now accepting offers in excess of $ 38 million . His will state , “ You would have been my wife , and it would have been yours anyway . ”
The striking home was built in 1908 for painter Cecil Rea and sculptor Constance Halford , and bought in Johnny Cash by Mercury ( or , as he was called on legal documents , Farrokh Bulsara ) in 1980 .
Kensington is one of London ’s classy neighborhoods , and the Neo - Georgian theatre , Garden Lodge , is somehow simultaneously smack in the midriff of it yet appealingly secluded . It ’s a few minutes ’ walk from the Victoria & Albert Museum , and the local shop is Harrods . take to ask a neighbour for a cup of sugar ? You ’re in all likelihood knocking on the doorway ofMr . Beanhimself , Rowan Atkinson , or way designer / Beatledaughter Stella McCartney . Fancy !
Austin has lived in the house since Mercury ’s death in 1991 . In the decades since , the wall outside the household ’s backyard has become a shrine of sort to thesinger .
“ This sign has been the most glorious memory board boxwood , because it has such love and warmth in every elbow room , ” says Austin of the menage . “ Ever since Freddie and I stepped through the fabled green door , it has been a place of heartsease , a rightful artist ’s house , and now is the metre to trust that good sense of ataraxis to the next person . ”
The literal estate agentive role , Knight Frank , are keen to take out attention to the many personal touches Mercury made to the intent of the place , from lemon - white-livered wall to floor - to - ceiling mirrors . They point out that the two - story draft way once put up the grand forte-piano on which Mercury compose “ Bohemian Rhapsody . ” That may not be as impressive as the piano still being there , or him having composed the Sung dynasty in the house ( he bought the home in 1980 , but compose “ Bohemian Rhapsody ” in the former 1970s , then read it in 1975 ) , but it ’s still an challenging piece ofmusic history .
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