Freddie Mercury’s London home has been put on sale with an asking price of $38 million – more than 1,000 times the amount paid by the Queen star in 1980. Mercury left Garden Lodge, in the affluent Kensington neighborhood, to his closest friend Mary Austin when he died in 1991. After she auctioned most of the property’s furniture in 2023, along with a range of Mercury’s other possessions, she decided it was time to sell the house she’d stayed in for over 30 years. “It was really only ever my house in name only,” Austin told Bloomberg in a recent interview. “I had worked on the house with him an…