1,500 items belonging to late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury are going to auction, including handwritten lyrics, a Picasso portrait, and a silver Tiffany & Co moustache comb.
The singer, born Farrokh Bulsara, amassed the collection over three decades and kept it all at his sprawling mansion the Garden Lodge, in Kensington, west London.
Among the items is a crown modelled on that of St Edward with an accompanying red velvet cloak that Mercury donned for a performance of God Save the Queen at the end of the the band’s last ever live performance at Knebworth House in 1986.
He spent his final months at the house before his death on November 24 1991, 24 hours after confirming that he had Aids as he urged humanity to "join the fight against this terrible disease". Mercury with Mary Austin at an after-party for Queen's Wembley concerts, Kensington Roof Gardens, London, 12th July 1986.The main exhibition will be at Sotheby’s London gallery in August, with all of the items from the house on display, followed by six auctions in September.
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