When it came to sex, the late Freddie Mercury was famously unfussy. "My sex drive is enormous. I sleep with men, women, cats – you name it," he once declared. "I’ll go to bed with anything!
My bed is so huge it can comfortably sleep six." But back in 1969 there was only one woman for him - the shy, unassuming Mary Austin he'd met through his Queen bandmate Brian May while she was working in PR for trendy fashion brand, Biba.
Freddie, then 24 and running a clothes stall with Queen drummer Roger Taylor, was enchanted by the 19-year-old Mary and eventually convinced her to go on a date.
Love blossomed and they moved into a cramped flat near Kensington market for £10 a week before Freddie popped the question with a beautiful jade ring on
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