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Queen frontman Freddie Mercury and the enduring love he had for his best friend and 'soulmate', Mary Austin , has become one of the most famous — and unusual — love stories in British music history. The famously private Mary Austin has quietly lived in Freddie Mercury's beloved London home, Garden Lodge, since his death in an upstairs bedroom in — when he left the house and all of its contents to her in his will.

In early , Mary Austin made the surprise decision to sell the contents of the house and almost all of Freddie's prized possessions in a huge sale of 1, items, which auction house Sotheby's has dubbed ' one of the biggest single-owner auctions in years '. The life-long love between Mary Austin and the singer was played out on the silver screen in the Oscar-winning film Bohemian Rhapsody and Freddie Mercury famously said he'd love her 'Until I draw my last breath.

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Now with the Queen star's private life on show at Sotheby's in central London , and with pre-bids for the Freddie's personal items already outstripping auction estimates, a spotlight has once again fallen on Freddie and Mary's unusual romance. Sitting down in the Garden Lodge home — which she is still undecided on whether she will keep or sell — Mary opened up about her relationship with Freddie, the reason for the auction and the romance between the pair that spanned decades.

A young Freddie Mercury first met Mary in , when he was 24 years old, five years after moving to England and a year before he joined the band, Queen. Mary Austin was from a working-class family in Fulham, west London — her father was a wallpaper cutter and her mother a maid — and had landed a job in the prestigious fashion boutique Biba in Kensington, in when she was 19 years old.

Freddie Mercury had just finished studying at Ealing Art College when he visited the fashionable shop and met Mary — they started hanging out in the same crowd before Freddie plucked up the courage to ask her out. It never occurred to me that it was anything more than that," she recalls of their first date. And he was a lot more open than he was in the crowd.

He gave it to me, and I went back to Biba, thinking, what is this? He could never articulate…".

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A post shared by Sotheby's sothebys. Everyone knew that. They had a bond which people who are together forever have," she said.