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Isobel Lewis

REVEALED: Brian may says freddie mercury auction is too sad to think about as items sell for 12m - The Real Truth

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Brian May has admitted to finding an auction of Freddie Mercury’s possessions “too sad” to think about.

On Wednesday (6 September) afternoon, more than 1,400 of the late Queen frontman’s possessions sold during auction at Sotheby’s in London. The items were owned by Mercury’s former fiancée Mary Austin, 72, to whom he left his possessions and home in his will.

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