What happened to Freddie Mercurys wife Mary Austin?

Publish date: 2024-05-14

Mary Austin was a woman who was the love and inspiration of one of Great Britain’s biggest celebrities.

But she never tried to use that for her own personal gain or to take advantage of others. She grew up in a struggling working-class home in West London, where her father worked as a hand trimmer for a wallpaper specialist and her mother was a maid. Under such circumstances, she had to grow up quickly.

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She dropped out of school at the age of 15 and became a receptionist, making a modest income. She moved up some shortly afterward, when she got a job at Biba. This was a very fashionable place, and the customers included some of the biggest celebrities of the time. She enjoyed it all. Then one night, she attended a rock concert at a nearby college. While there, she ran into a friendly acquaintance who worked nearby, Brian May. They hit it off and they began dating

What happened to Freddie Mercury’s ‘wife’ Mary Austin?

These days, Mary, 70, lives a quiet life in the London mansion Freddie left to her where Queen fans still make regular visits to pay their respects.

She has been married twice but is now divorced. She shares two grown-up sons, Jamie and Richard, with one of her exes, Piers Cameron. Speaking about losing Freddie, 30 years ago this year, she said: “I lost my family, really, when Freddie died. He was everything to me, apart from my sons. He was like no one I had met before

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