 Freeth served for nearly 20 years as a Churchwarden of the leading London Anglo-Catholic Church, All Saints, Margaret Street.According to Michael McManus's book on the history of Conservative attitudes to homosexuality, Freeth was gay.His homosexuality had been discovered by Lord Denning who, in the wake of the Profumo affair, had been tasked by prime minister Harold Macmillan with identifying other ministers who might be 'security risks'.