Freddie Mercury had secret daughter, new biography claims

Freddie Mercury had a secret daughter with whom he had a detailed courting till his dying in 1991, consistent with a brand new biography of the Queen frontman.

The ebook, Love, Freddie, claims the kid was once conceived by accident throughout an affair with the spouse of a detailed good friend in 1976.

Mercury is alleged to have visited his daughter continuously and gave her 17 volumes of detailed non-public journals which she stored a secret.

The lady identified simplest as B – who’s elderly 48 and works as a scientific skilled in Europe – has shared the contents with the rock biographer Lesley-Ann Jones for the ebook.

In the ebook, reported within the Daily Mail, a handwritten letter from Mercury’s daughter, who needs to stay her id a secret, says: “Freddie Mercury was and is my father.

“We had a very close and loving relationship from the moment I was born and throughout the final 15 years of his life.

“He adored me and was devoted to me. The circumstances of my birth may seem, by most people’s standards, unusual and even outrageous.

“That should come as no surprise. It never detracted from his commitment to love and look after me. He cherished me like a treasured possession.”

Her lifestyles is known to be identified simplest to Mercury’s internal circle.

The singer began writing the diaries on 20 June 1976 when he first realized in regards to the being pregnant, two days after Queen launched their unmarried You’re My Best Friend from their 1975 album A Night on the Opera.

He chronicled his early life in Zanzibar the place he was once born Farrokh Bulsara, to Parsi-Indian folks, on 5 September 1946, and attending a British-style boarding faculty in India.

It additionally main points how the circle of relatives was once compelled to escape Zanzibar within the 1964 revolution ahead of settling in Middlesex, north-west London.

He wrote his ultimate access in his pocket book on 31 July, 1991, as his well being deteriorated. The singer died elderly 45 of bronchial pneumonia brought about by means of Aids.

In any other letter incorporated within the ebook, B explains her causes for sharing Mercury’s journals after 30 years.

“After more than three decades of lies, speculation and distortion, it is time to let Freddie speak.

“Those who have been aware of my existence kept his greatest secret out of loyalty to Freddie.

“That I choose to reveal myself in my own midlife is my decision and mine alone. I have not, at any point, been coerced into doing this.

“He entrusted his collection of private notebooks to me, his only child and his next of kin, the written record of his private thoughts, memories and feelings about everything he had experienced.”

Jones mentioned she was once first approached by means of B 3 years in the past. She informed the Daily Mail: “My instinct was to doubt everything, but I am absolutely sure she is not a fantasist.

“No one could have faked all this. Why would she have worked with me for three and a half years, never demanding anything?”