What's going on with Garden Lodge?

A few weeks ago I heard that the acrylic panels were being removed and that the GARDEN LODGE door was repainted. Now I go to Google Street View and the house is blurred https://www.google.com.ar/maps/@51.4945317,-0.1983017,3a,75y,207.74h,80.27t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sc9wQrIdM5FrVPhVu-57d6g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Any news?

1. renovations
2. request for privancy granted

source = your posting :-)

The stronger Plexiglas panels replaced the original ones around May, but were completely removed shortly after. At the same time the Plexiglas was installed, the house disappeared from Google Street View. Recently the gate was changed to a plainer one (that has since been graffiti'd in Spanish).

I assume Mary Austin applied to Google for the house to be blurred out. Though I am not sure what she hoped to achieve by that as everyone knows what the walls look like and how to get there. You can only see the very top/roof of the house from outside anyway, so hiding a brick wall from the internet is pointless. If it makes her feel better, then it's all good, I guess.

^ that u know any of this is key into why people would apply for privacy requests.

But like u said...at the end of the day it sounds pretty pointless.

No - I only know this because I am in a Queen Facebook group and people constantly post selfies outside the house (and argue over it). Believe me, there would be nothing more boring than lurking outside Mary's home day in, day out!

Well, Mary certainly has the right to ask Google to blur the house. Maybe she even paid Google for it (she just earned 450.000 GBP gross dividends -as she holds 50% the estate- from Queen Productions....

Not bad knowing that Brian, Roger and John each made 1,500,000 GBP in the last year .... albeit gross dividend income.

Page 20 (dividend results Queen Productions) last tax year)
https://goo.gl/pzxPD1

Page 8
Shareholder A/B/C/D (Queen Productions)
description (D = Freddie Mercury Estate)
https://goo.gl/m3vG81

Your links don't work, TRS :/

never understood why she wants to live there anyway.

^Yeah, why would you want to live in a beautiful, large house in one of the best areas in London, which was once the home of someone you loved greatly? I'd prefer some studio in Peckham, preferably above an off-license.

Mary seems like she's trying to make it harder for any fans who don't know where Mr Mercury's Boudoir is ha.

I wonder if she still owns the small mews property next door? And wo is living in it, She can forget about privacy as long as she's living in that house, Graceland comes to mind.

I would of thought Brian and Roger QP etc would be earning a lot more than that etc.

She does live in the mews I think, though obviously I have no idea if she uses that more than the Lodge itself.
I took my friend from Ireland to see Freddie's homes, and we saw her going into the Mews, as opposed to the main gate.

I know it's her choice and her property, but it does feel like she is stopping fans from seeing it. Maybe she gets a lot of crazies coming by. Unfortunately it's a public street in a busy area and her garden is surrounded by lots of taller buildings so it was never going to be totally private. I even wonder why Freddie wanted it, considering it is so overlooked and he was supposed to be so guarded.

What's the point of blurring the house on Street View? Everybody knows where it is. When I thought I would never be able to go there, I was happy to at least see it virtually. Now she's preventing many people from doing that. A couple of months ago I finally got the chance to go; there's not much you can see from the outside anyway.

Graceland is a museum, not a house were people live.

I think that by bluring the house, she only makes fans even more curious to visit the place. Bluring it has precisely the contrary effect than what she thinks it has.

I agree; it's a strange move. I have to say, she seems to be of a petty nature though.
A relative of mine works for RBKC (Kensington council) and says Mary and her ex husband Nick caused a lot of problems with the neighbours, constantly fighting to block various planning permissions and generally throwing their weight around.

Mary seemed to have the idea people wanted to build extensions for the sole purpose of looking into her home and questioned why some houses in the street opposite Garden Lodge had any need to be built at all(!) Her letters were rather smug, snotty and in the manner of a spoiled child, criticising people's gardens and the aesthetics of their architecture! One of the neighbours she was fighting with was Dame Diana Rigg, who lives a couple of streets away.

My relative and colleagues used to say she had let her inheritance go to her head and believed herself to be the Queen of Logan Place.

It's been a long time and I think that house is no longer same house when Freddie lived there.
And if I had a chance I wouldn't go to see because I think I couldn't see anything.