Freddie Mercury’s secret daughter has died aged 48 after a long battle with a rare cancer, the family announced.
Queen singer Lesley called her ‘Bibi’ and wrote several songs about her.
Author Lesley Ann Jones revealed the deceased’s existence in the bombshell book Love, Freddie, published last summer.
Lesley has today said Freddie also called her his ‘trésor’ – French for treasure – and his ‘little froggie’.
The Queen songs ‘Bijou’ (jewel) and ‘Don’t Try So Hard’ were written about her, she said. The iconic singer had a close relationship with Bibi until his death in 1991.
Bibi’s widower Thomas contacted the Daily Mail to say that she passed away ‘peacefully after a long battle with chordoma, a rare spinal cancer, leaving two sons aged nine and seven’.
He added: ‘B is now with her beloved and loving father in the world of thoughts. Her ashes were scattered to the wind over the Alps.’
Lesley-Ann Jones said the Queen frontman secretly fathered ‘Bibi’ during an affair in 1976 – and said last year that she has DNA evidence to back it up.
Lesley said: ‘I am devastated by the loss of this woman who became my close friend, who had come to me with a selfless aim: to brush aside all those who have had free rein with Freddie’s story for 32 years, to challenge their lies and their rewriting of his life, and to deliver the truth.
‘At the end of her life, it was all that mattered to her. She was very ill throughout the 4 years that we worked together. But she was on a mission. She put herself and her own needs last.’
