Jane Seymour, 75, recalled the moment she “married” Freddie Mercury in 1985 during a charity event called Fashion Aid, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
In a video posted on her TikTok profile, Seymour spoke about her participation in the event, where she worked as a model. “They decided that I should be Freddie Mercury’s bride,” she said, and was soon dressed in a wedding gown designed by David and Elizabeth Emanuel.
“They made my hair very big, put me in this extraordinary dress that I could barely walk in. They placed a flower crown around my head that, to this day, I remember the migraine. And a huge bouquet that I could barely carry.”
“I remember a moment when I’m backstage and suddenly I think I’m flanked by David Bowie, Boy George and Freddie Mercury. I think they looked straight through me, which was hard to do considering the amount of hair and glamour they had put on me. I was, you have to understand, I was as much of a bride as you could possibly get,” Seymour said.
Seymour also spoke about the moment she was kissed by Mercury, an action that had not been rehearsed and truly caught her by surprise.
“Freddie is just getting ready to be Freddie Mercury and I’m supposed to be his bride, so I’m running like crazy and as fast as I can, in this huge dress, with this headpiece that’s killing me, and the flowers I can barely carry, but with a smile on my face. And Freddie suddenly turns into, like, the groom, and he kisses me! He kisses me. Right in front of everyone.”
“And then he takes my flowers, looks at the audience and throws them. That thing, if it had hit someone, could have seriously hurt them. It was an absolutely sublime moment, and I think one of the greatest memories of my life was being Freddie Mercury’s wife,” Seymour concluded in the video.
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