Who is Freddie Mercury's secret daughter B? All the clues and her plea for privacy

icon led a life most in the music industry would lust after. He earned himself a legion of fans across the globe and created a catalogue of songs that have stood the test of time. Following his tragic death at the age of 45, many thought they had learned everything there was to know about the beloved frontman.

However, this week it was revealed that Freddie hid from the a secret daughter who he kept hidden in a desperate bid for her to maintain a healthy existence.

The bombshell was revealed in a new biography of the singer titled Love, Freddie, written by biographer Lesley-Ann Jones. Freddie's daughter offered up a letter to Lesley- Ann revealing snippets of their bond.

The woman is referred only as B and offers up only small clues as her to identity and relationship with her iconic father. We take a look at everything we know about the mysterious connection an B's insistence on maintaining her privacy.

For 48 years, B lived under the radar and with the type of 'normal' existence her superstar father Freddie could only have dreamed of. B is now a married healthcare professional and it's understood that she currently resides in Europe, but the exact location remains unknown.

She is also a mum, which would have made the late singer a grandfather. B was conceived due to a brief fling with a close friend's wife in 1976.

And the only people that knew she existed was his family, his bandmates and his lover at the time Mary Austin.

Between her mother, step-father and Freddie, it was decided that B would be raised by her mother and husband but Freddie maintained a close bond with B. He even had his own room at the family's house, where he would visit regularly.

For the purposes of the biography of her father's life, B has shared 17 volumes of the singer's journals.

Before his devastating death in November 1991 he gave his daughter his journals. Her decision to reveal details of his notebooks was simply down to her desire to eradicate lies and speculation that had been circulating for decades.

Explaining her decision, B said: "After more than three decades of lies, speculation and distortion, it is time to let Freddie speak."

She went on to add: "He entrusted his collection of private notebooks to me, his only child and his next of kin, the written record of his private thoughts, memories and feelings about everything he had experienced."

B went on to explain that while his management and friends knew of the notebooks, they had no idea, until now, what had happened to them.

According to the Daily Mail, a handwritten letter from B is included in the book. Speaking about her close bond with Freddie, she wrote : "We had a very close and loving relationship from the moment I was born and throughout the final 15 years of his life."

She added:" He adored me and was devoted to me. The circumstances of my birth may seem, by most people’s standards, unusual and even outrageous."

She also stated that her decision to come forward "in my own midlife is my decision and mine alone."

The biographer has vowed to maintain B's privacy which was a request before details of the singer's journals was released.

B also said: "The life I live with my husband and our family in another country is intensely private. We want things to stay that way. "

She added: "We cherish our peaceful and anonymous life, and we want nothing to disturb it. Nobody needs to know who I am."

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