Freddie Mercury’s ‘hidden daughter’ dies aged just 48

Its existence was only revealed a few months ago. “Bibi”, the nickname of Freddie Mercury’s “secret daughter”, died of spinal cancer at the age of 48, the British tabloid Daily Mail learned on Thursday.

She died “peacefully” said her husband, Thomas, who specifies that she leaves behind her two sons, aged seven and nine. “B. now rests with his beloved father in the world of thoughts. His ashes were scattered in the wind above the Alps,” specifies the widower who lived with his partner in Switzerland.

In a new biography of the Queen singer published in September and soberly entitled “Love, Freddie”, rock specialist Lesley-Ann Jones revealed the existence of a “hidden daughter” of Freddie Mercury. Anonymized under the initial “B.”, it was born in 1976 from an extramarital affair of the singer with the wife of one of his best friends.

“I am devastated by the loss of this woman who had become a close friend,” responded Lesley-Ann Jones to the Daily Mail. “She was very ill during the four years we worked together,” she added. “Bibi” was diagnosed “at a very young age” with chordoma, a rare form of spinal cord cancer.

In the confidence of Freddie Mercury

Her existence as the daughter of Freddie Mercury was only known to a handful of the singer’s relatives, but through this book, B. had decided for herself to reveal her identity. “I was not forced to do it,” she wrote in a handwritten letter which appears in the biography, before adding: “He had entrusted me, his only child, with all his private diaries, the notebooks where he confided his intimate thoughts, his memories and what he felt on his journey. »

The singer, who died of pneumonia in 1991, had written the Queen songs “Bijou” and Don’t Try So Hard, based on the many revelations of “Love, Freddie”.

“Freddie Mercury was and is my father,” she told the author, explaining that she had been “raised in a loving family” and had experienced a “very close and very loving relationship” with her father, despite the “unusual and scandalous” conditions in which she was born.