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 There were four silver trunks in Mary Austin’s a...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/sep/01/freddie-mercury-lover-mary-austin-interview)