It was a huge relief, because I wasn’t sure whether we were travelling in the same direction any more,” says Mary Austin.

He was Queen’s flamboyant frontman. She was his shy girlfriend, dreaming of marriage until they both realised he preferred men. Thirty-five years after his death, in the week he would have turned 80, ...

Mary Austin has opened up about the moment Freddie Mercury came out, and why learning he was gay ultimately lifted a weight from their relationship.

Mary Austin is the former girlfriend and closest friend of the late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury. Austin met Mercury when she was 19 and he was 23, a year before Queen were formed. They lived ...