David and Victoria Beckham were once good friends with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, however this appears to no longer be the case.

The pair had been friends for a number of years (Image: Owen Humphreys – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

David Beckham was spotted at a royal engagement earlier this week with Prince William, which was a welcome surprise for many royal fans.

However, while the pair have been pictured together before, and are rumoured to be good friends, some people were left wondering why Beckham had not been seen with Prince Harry, who was in the UK less than 24 hours before at the WellChild Awards.

Despite the fact the footballer had been at Harry’s wedding to wife Meghan Markle in May 2018,it appears relations between the Beckhams and Sussex’s have become strained over recent years, with Beckham now seemingly bonding more with Harry’s brother Prince William.

Royal expert Richard Eden claimed a number of reasons have resulted in David and Victoria Beckham drifting away from Harry and Meghan, including their views on family.

He wrote in The Daily Mail: “David had always been an ardent royalist, who would stand up for the Queen’s Speech every Christmas, dressed in his Sunday best. Years later, he queued for 12 hours to view the Queen’s coffin when her body was lying in state.

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Prince William and David Beckham pictured together at a royal engagement this week (Image: GETTY)

“So it is, perhaps, no surprise that the Sussexes’ attacks on the Royal Family failed to impressed the Beckhams.

“‘Both David and Victoria put great importance on family and would never, ever turn on their relations the way that Harry and Meghan did,’ one of their associates tells me.

“‘The truth is that Victoria never really liked Meghan much. She was friendly and welcoming to her but is not bothered about staying in touch.'”

The Beckhams’ reportedly began experiencing problems with the couple before their 2018 wedding. According to The Daily Mail, the footballer and his fashion designer wife had helped Meghan and even let her stay in their Los Angeles pad when she experienced problems with paparazzi while visiting her mum in America.

Victoria also came to Meghan’s aid after she moved into Nottingham Cottage at Kensington Palace, it has been claimed. The fashion designer reportedly gave Meghan advice on make-up and a member of her staff provided her with help on facials and hairdressing all free of charge.

However, this became public news soon after, with sources claiming that Meghan believed it was the Beckhams who leaked it to the press, which they denied.

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The couple attended Harry and Meghan’s 2018 wedding (Image: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

Although the couples stayed in contact, with David and Victoria attending the 2018 wedding ceremony, they were not invited to the evening reception, which is likely to have strained relationships further. Eden then reported that David flew to Australia later that same year to attend the Invictus Games at the duke’s request. However, when the football legend got there, Prince Harry would not see him, he claimed.

According to royal biographer Tom Bower, it was Meghan who made this decision. Bower is reported to have said in his book Revenge: “She wanted no competition in the media from David. It seemed she was not prepared to tolerate anything flattering regarding the Beckhams and the Games to appear in the media.”

The relationship between the couples is now believed to be distant, with David instead sharing a closer bond with William and Princess Kate.

Eden said in The Daily Mail: “Given that David owns a football club in Miami and the couple have an increasingly prominent position in American society, it might seem natural that they would join the court of Harry and Meghan.

“Instead, the Beckhams are sticking with the Windsors. If power couples were like football teams, this match would be a 2-0 result to William and Catherine.”