Mary austin

Ahahaha hilarious

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Well, Mary has instructed Google to blur Garden Lodge on Google Street View!

Golddigger, pure she was...

I think she stays with Freddie for the money...

She hates everyone in Freddies private life, Jim, Peter, Joe, Tony, Barbara, she was scared that she didn't get any money.

You twat. How the hell would you know? She stayed true to Freddie until the end and he loved her. Enough said. Fuck off.

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Quite right.
Bloody sanctimonious knob heads.

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Supersonic_Man89
Bohemian: 242 posts
Posted: 16 Apr 12, 06:01

I spoke to Peter Freestone about this briefly in 2010:

"Hey Peter,
I'm a big fan of Freddies and recently purchased the late Jim Hutton's book 'Mercury & Me'. It was a very interesting read and gave a rather special insight into the life of Freddie. However, the ending where he discusses Mary Austin's behaviour was a little troubling. It seemed awfully harsh and completely the opposite of how Freddie would have wanted his closest friends to continue. In some ways it may have been a blessing in disguise to have been kicked out of Garden Lodge so soon, so you Jim and Joe weren't surrounded by the house you shared with Freddie, allowing you to maybe move on slightly easier. However, I can also imagine it to be an unnecessary and unfair inconvenience. What if you didn't want to move on yet? What if you felt in March 1992, it wasn't time, not yet, you weren't ready?

It's a shame as when you watch documentaries about Freddie, Mary always comes across as the adorable girlfriend who stood by her man, and allowed him his freedom. So I've always had an admiration for her. However, her behaviour after Freddie passed on sounds like a nightmare. So I was wondering if her attitudes have changed since the early nineties and did she warm to Jim at all before he died?

Thankyou

Luke"

"As far as I am aware Mary's feelings never changed. Saying that, she was in a very uncomfortable position after Freddie died. Mary was a beneficiary of Freddie's will and the executors had control of everything and to let his will progress through probate, it was felt that Garden Lodge could not have tenants living there.

Things are very rarely 'black and white'. Life continues through many shades of grey!!
I hope this helps.

Take care
Peter"

Freddie's attitude when it came to the question of what would happen in terms of Phoebe/Jim/Joe and Mary living together was "they'll have to sort it out". He didn't leave anything in his last will and testament which indicated that he wanted Jim etc. to remain at Garden Lodge. He only said this verbally, which of course has no legal standing. Freddie was aware that there would have been some issues, as the topic had cropped up at least once before he died (this is according to Jim Beach, Phoebe or Jim Hutton, can't remember who).

John Reid was interviewed (for the book Somebody To Love) and said he had bumped into Mary some years after Freddie died, and she said "I won in the end".

I think Freddie's will pretty much summed it up in regards to who was important for him. It's hilarious how Hutton received the same amount as all the other "servants" living in Garden Lodge :D

Freddie's judgment, rightly or wrongly, was always that none of his friends apart from Mary would be able to cope with his wealth and everything that brought in the way of notoriety or press or having to cope with what ever he left. He said this in a number of interviews.

The garden lodge group were friends as well as having a roll in Freddie's life. They were all treated equally. Cook, assistant or lover, Freddie seemed to vslue each the same.

In several interviews he said that Mary was special, had stuck by him through everything and therefore perhaps more important in his life then anyone else, hence the house and the biggest cut of the money. It's a not good that Mary has chosen to take the path she's taken. Maybe her position in his life made it very difficult for her to move on with out him. Maybe she holds those around him in someway responsible for what happened to Freddie or maybe she wants to forget, and part of that was turning her back on those who were part of Freddie's closest circle.

It would be great to hear her thoughts and reasoning but that I don't see happening at anytime.

Freddie should have thought about what would happen to his friends living in garden lodge when mary was moving in. He should have sorted it all out when he first caught his african bum disease.

dudley-fukfin, there are at least three instances in your two inane sentences where you missed capitalising proper nouns.

[QUOTE] [b]Kuijpy wrote:[/b]

She hates everyone in Freddies private life, Jim, Peter, Joe, Tony, Barbara[/QUOTE]

Has she stated that she hates these people? Or did those people (all of whom got less money from Freddie) state that she hates them?

I'm just very impressed on how great a thread this evolved from ...out of NOTHING!


KUDOS to the fella bashing Mary...helluva topic uve made

I thik that some things about relationship between Mary and Freddie are exaggerated.
Ok.he loved her but like a sister or friend.She inherited huge money and house from Freddie but money and love are not the same thing.That is not a proof of love but someting else is.
Freddie wear a ring given him by Jim and wearing it at the end of his life.
I think that Freddie and Jim loved each other sincerely and strongly.
That's my opinion.