The Garden Lodge in Kensington, which the Queen legend bought in 1980 and owned until his death in 1991, has gone up for sale for in excess of £30 million.
LONDON: Here are five lots that stand out in the Sotheby s sale of items belonging to Queen frontman Freddie Mercury that begins in London on Wednesday.
The Yamaha piano was purchased in 1975 by Mercury, who died of AIDS in 1991 at age 45. The instrument could fetch a value of two to three million pounds ($2.5 million to $3.75 million) Some 1,469 lots will be auctioned at the London house, whose façade was decorated with a huge moustache. The collection was put up for sale by Mary Austin, a close friend who became Mercury's fiancée. Part of the proceeds will be donated to the Mercury Phoenix Trust and the Elton John AIDS Foundation, two organizations involved in the fight against AIDS.