Hammer to fall on Freddie's treasures

Star’s gear up for auction

- TOM BRYANT

QUEEN fans will go gaga over an auction of more than 1,500 items from Freddie Mercury’s home that have gone untouched for 30 years. 

The artefacts taken from his beloved pad will go on display from August 4 until September 5, which would have been his 77th birthday.

The collection includes costumes, paintings and objects from the frontman’s everyday life.

Ex-girlfriend Mary Austin, who was left Garden Lodge in Kensington, West London, when he died in 1991, said: “The collection takes you deeper within the individual and man I knew.”