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The extraordinary untold story of Freddie Mercury: Mary Austin on her best friend – and love of her life


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

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