About Freddie Mercury House

Garden Lodge Mansion is on a quiet residential street in Kensington. Its is the place where Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury lived and finally died. Mercury moved into the house in 1985, and decorated sumptuously. Garden Lodge is surrounded by tall stone walls that shield the house and garden from view. In the beginning, this house was host to raucous parties and late night recording sessions in the attached studio. However, as his health weakened he retreated from the public eye and spent more and more time at his home. In the final weeks of his life he was tended to by his former lover and best friend, Mary Austin. Mercury died in November 1991 and left the home to her. Austin still lives here today. Mercury was cremated and his ashes were interred in a secret location that Mary Austin states she will never disclose. Please pay respect to the current residents.