{"id":6739,"date":"2025-11-10T09:39:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/?p=6739"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:27:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:27:44","slug":"brian-mays-strong-reaction-to-freddie-mercurys-secret-daughter-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/10\/brian-mays-strong-reaction-to-freddie-mercurys-secret-daughter-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian May\u2019s strong reaction to Freddie Mercury\u2019s \u2018secret daughter\u2019 revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brian May’s (right) reaction to the claim Freddie Mercury (left) had a daughter has been revealed (Picture: Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brian May’s<\/a> wife, Anita Dobson<\/a>, has revealed her husband’s reaction to the rumour that Queen<\/a> bandmate Freddie Mercury<\/a> has a secret daughter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An upcoming biography about the frontman, penned by Lesley-Ann Jones, contains claims from a woman known as B that she is Freddie’s daughter<\/a>, conceived during a fling with the wife of a close friend in 1976.<\/p>\n

In the book – titled Love, Freddie: Freddie Mercury\u2019s Secret Life and Love – it is claimed that those close to the singer, including his bandmates, were aware of his daughter’s, now 48, existence.<\/p>\n

However, EastEnders icon Dobson, 76, revealed that she and her guitarist husband, 78, were left shocked by the claims.<\/p>\n

‘Why wait this long? Brian thinks it\u2019s a load of rubbish,’ she told The Telegraph.<\/p>\n

‘I knew Freddie really, really well \u2013 I was a good friend of his \u2013 and I think Brian would trust me with that knowledge.’<\/p>\n

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An upcoming biography claims that the singer (second left) had a secret daughter following a fling with a friend’s wife (Picture: Richard E. Aaron\/Redferns)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Anita Dobson has shared that her husband, Queen guitarist May, believes the claims are ‘rubbish’ (Picture: Alan Chapman\/Dave Benett\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a separate interview with The Mirror<\/a>, the Doctor Who star said ‘we’d all like to meet’ the woman claiming to be Freddie’s daughter.<\/p>\n

‘There must be lots of people who have children that we don\u2019t know about. It\u2019s just because it\u2019s him. Because he\u2019s iconic,’ she continued.<\/p>\n

‘And the type of animal that he was, it seems inconceivable that he would have a child with someone we don\u2019t know about.’<\/p>\n

B has claimed that she and her alleged father had a close relationship ‘from the moment she was born and throughout the final 15 years of his life.’<\/p>\n

A passage from the book<\/a>, as seen by The Independent<\/a>, reads: ‘He adored me and was devoted to me.<\/p>\n

‘The circumstances of my birth may seem, by most people\u2019s standards, unusual and even outrageous.<\/p>\n

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B has alleged that she and the rock icon shared a close relationship (Picture: Pete Still\/Redferns)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Freddie’s former partner, Mary Austin, has cast doubts on the rumours (Picture: Dave Hogan\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘That should come as no surprise. It never detracted from his commitment to love and look after me. He cherished me like a treasured possession.’<\/p>\n

One of Freddie’s closest friends and former partner, Mary Austin, previously cast doubts on the secret child claims<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Talking to The Times<\/a>, Austin, who inherited much of Mercury\u2019s estate, said she would be ‘astonished’ if the claims were proven to be true.<\/p>\n

‘Freddie had a glorious openness, and I cannot imagine he would have wanted to, or been able to, keep such a joyful event a secret, either from me or other people closest to him,’ Austin said.<\/p>\n

Austin says that, if the We Will Rock You star did have a daughter, it would have brought him ‘tremendous joy’, as well as to his parents and ‘everybody who cared about him.’<\/p>\n

While she believes that Mercury\u2019s parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, would have ’embraced her with all the love in their hearts’, she ‘does not remember Freddie ever speaking about creating a family.’<\/p>\n

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