A new biography claims that Freddie Mercury had a secret daughter.
The book, titled Love, Freddie, which explores the life of the late Queen frontman, alleges that the child was conceived accidentally during an affair with the wife of a close friend in 1976. It goes on to claim that Mercury kept a close relationship with the child until his death in 1991, visiting her regularly and giving her 17 volumes of detailed personal journals, which she kept a secret.
The woman – who is only referred to as B throughout the book and is now aged 48 and working as a medical professional – shared the journals with the author Lesley-Ann Jones.
According to reports by the Daily Mail, the book includes B’s reasoning for sharing the journals after 30 years, with her writing: “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,” she continues. “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.”
It is believed that only Mercury’s inner circle are aware of B’s existence.
“We had a very close and loving relationship from the moment I was born and throughout the final 15 years of his life,” she wrote in a handwritten letter. “He adored me and was devoted to me. The circumstances of my birth may seem, by most people’s standards, unusual and even outrageous. (NME)
