Those objects should not have come out at auction. According to The SunI thought that Kashmira Bulara, sister of Freddie Mercury, who secretly acquired more than 40 personal objects that had belonged to her brotherspending more than three million euros. Among them there are several clothes, drawings and symbolic objects: fragments of an existence that were about to end up spreading around the world.
The legendary Crown of Freddie MercuryAnadolu/Getty Images
The ex -girlfriend and great friend to whom Freddie Mercury dedicated the song Love of my life, Mary Austin, He kept all those objects he inherited more than 30 years ago until he made the decision to sell everything in an auction.
But Kashmira Bulsara didn’t want to lose all those personal memories that had belonged to her brother. So he made a private visit Sotheby’s before the auction and, on the day of the sale He sent to his personal assistant to bid while she followed the course of the events in a telematic way. No one had to suspect anything, much less Austin.
Kashmira bulsaraTolga Akmen/GETY Images
According to a source cited by The Sun, Kashmira felt “angry and hurt” given the idea that the most intimate possessions of his brother could end up in unknown hands. “Of course, she values the way they worship Freddie worldwide, but the idea that certain articles loaded with affection could disperse instead of their loved ones left saddled it deeply,” said the same source.
Among the objects sold by Kashmira Bulsara A vest was decorated with images of Freddie’s six cats who looked in the video clip of These Are the Days of Our Lives, Just six months before his death. It cost him 139,700 pounds. But The most expensive was a military inspiration jacket made for the singer’s 39th birthday, So I would have spent more: 457,200 pounds. And also: a gramola Wurlitzer worth 406,400 pounds, eight pages of handwritten letters of Killer Queen For 279,400 pounds, a lamp by 22,860 pounds and a design ice cream for 19,000 pounds, among many other objects.
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