Ukrainian artist Andriy Mykhailovych Danylko, known as Verka Serdyuka, will auction his 1974 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, which Queen frontman Freddie Mercury drove in his last years, Babel reports.
Danylko said on his Facebook page that he would sell the car through Sotheby’s auction house, saying that when he bought it, he thought that at some point he would donate it to the Queen’s Museum or to an exhibition dedicated to Ukraine, but then the war began. changed his plans.
The auction will take place on November 5 in London, and Sotheby’s has already announced that it will not charge a commission on the sale. Danylko says that he will donate all the money he will receive for the car to the construction of a rehabilitation center in Lviv, the largest city in Western Ukraine.
Work on the “Supermen” center will begin early next year, Sting and his wife, Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska and British billionaire Richard Branson announced among those who supported the project.
In addition to financial support, they will become ambassadors of a project aimed at building a modern clinic for Ukrainian servicemen and civilians who have lost limbs, were disfigured or suffer from post-traumatic stress as a result of the war.
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Source: Hot News RU
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