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In 1968 Chrissie’s flatmate, Josephine “Jo” Morris, was dating medical student Roger Taylor, who also played drums in a band called “Smile” and run a stall in Kensington market selling second hand clothes with a friend who called himself Freddie Mercury. When Jo took Chrissie along to one of “Smile”’s gigs at Imperial College (the night Smile debuted at Imperial that October 26th [1968], supporting Pink Floyd) she was introduced to Roger’s friend and bandmate Brian May, who played the guitar.
Slender, with long dark hair, Chrissie had a pretty elfin face, and that evening there was an instant connection between her and Brian, though initially they settled for being just good friends, as he was dating a girl named Mary Austin, who eventually would date Freddie Mercury. Chrissie was happy to rank among the growing circle wich formed “Smile”’s travelling support.
After about a year of careful friendship, they become a couple in a serious stable relationship, and they soon moved in together in a small apartment with a cat, Squeaky. Brian recalled in 2010: “It was probably the happiest time of my life. I was living with my future wife in a bedsit about the size of this table. We lived on cod in a bag, we had one gas ring, we had no problems in life.” Brian was busy with the band, sometimes with Chrissie and sometimes without, but Brian’s strict father loomed on them: “When Queen was taking off, we didn’t speak [Brian and his father Harold] for nearly two years. He also hated the fact that I was living with a woman, who turned out to be my first wife, Chrissie. He thought it was immoral, I couldn’t understand it.” The second disapproved thing was the choice of music instead of astronomy.
Brian and Chrissie had fallen deeply in love. This romantic commitment went further that Brian had ever experienced and he found it hard to envisage life without her. The anchor of a stimulating yet stable relationship provided a solid platform from which he could try to further his ambitions.
At the begining of the New Year [1976] he and Chrissie Mullen set a wedding date. They had been together for seven years and for a lot of that time had been inseparable.
On 29 May 1976 Chrissie and Brian married at st. Osmund`s Roman Catholic Church in Barnes, Richmond-upon-Thames, London.
By the end of 1976, they had bought a comfortable house in Barnes.
They had three children: Jimmy who was born on 15 June, 1978; Louisa who was born on 22 May 1981 and Emily Ruth who was born on 17 February, 1987.
Chrissie went on on tour with Queen and also to some of their and at parties. She followed Brian pretty often, even with their children, and they seemed inseparable whenever she was there. Despite touring with Queen, though, she’s a very private person, we don’t know much about her personality and Brian tried to protect his family’s privacy as much as possible.
When Queen stopped touring at the end of 1986, Brian reckoned: “It’s very hard to adapt back to normal life. I was married and I had kids and the marriage survived the whole touring life really well. It was only when I stopped touring that things fell apart, because we couldn’t adapt to living ‘a normal life' … People thought I’d defined myself in terms of being a rock star, but I defined myself as a husband and a dad, above everything else.”
In 1986 Brian fell in love with actress Anita Dobson, and not even the birth of his and Chrissie’s last child Emily in 1987 could save the marriage. They divorced in 1988.