Lesley-Ann Jones talks about her new book Love, Freddie: Freddie Mercury’s Secret Life and Love. Far from a conventional biography, the book is drawn from Freddie Mercury’s private notebooks and the perspective of his newly discovered daughter, revealing a side of the Queen frontman the world has never seen.
Lesley-Ann shares stories of Freddie’s childhood in Zanzibar and India, the trauma that shaped him, and his single-minded drive to succeed in music. She discusses the complexities of his relationship with Mary Austin, the hidden bond he had with his daughter, and how the flamboyant public persona of Freddie Mercury masked the spiritual, private man Freddie Bulsara.
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I would like the idea of Freddie Mercury having a daughter. But this story raises more questions than giving answers.
The whole story reminds me very much of the “Hitler’s diaries”, when a serious german magazine once presented sixty volumes of handwritten journals to the world. Those journals were published – but soon identified as a very clever fake. There was also a young german woman appearing on TV and in the press in the 80s claiming to be Paul McCartney’s secret daughter. She even sued him, but a blood test revealed, that she had nothing to do with him.
In this case everything is well explained, “how and when” everything was supposed to have happened. But this quote about not giving any proof of the diaries is most suspicious: “She couldn’t for a variety of reasons copy pages of the notebooks and publish those, there are legal reasons why not”. What legal reasons??? And the fact, that NO ONE of Mercury’s closest people has ever noticed anything of those “frequent meetings” is even more strange. Unless “B” shows any proof, my impression is that this is not “the real life – it is just fantasy”….