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Brooklyn Beckham has “always wanted to be a young dad”.

The 25-year-old star dreams of having children in the coming years, and he’s particularly keen to go travelling with them one day.

Brooklyn – who is married to actress Nicola Peltz – told PEOPLE: “I’ve always wanted to be a young dad, and I always want to be able to take my kids wherever I go. So it’s definitely something I want to pass down to my kids.”

Brooklyn – who is the son of David and Victoria Beckham – and Nicola tied the knot in Palm Beach, Florida, in April 2022.

Nicola, 29, previously admitted that time has flown since she walked down the aisle.

The actress – who played Bradley Martin in the hit drama series ‘Bates Motel’ – shared: “Everyone is always like, ‘Oh, what does being married feel like?’ This is genuinely how I feel.

“I feel like when you’re on a sleepover or a play date, and it’s like, ‘Oh, can they sleep over again?’ And you just are on a never-ending sleepover play date. That’s how we feel.”

Brooklyn previously revealed that he’s eager to become a dad.

However, the former soccer player – who has also dated the likes of Chloe Grace Moretz and Madison Beer – acknowledged that Nicola might wish to wait a little longer to have children.

Speaking to PEOPLE in 2022, Brooklyn explained: “I could have had kids yesterday.

“Obviously it’s my wife’s body, but I’ve always wanted to have a bunch of kids around. That’s something I really want to do. And my dad was young when he had me. He was 23.”

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Tom Bower’s new book – “House of Beckham: Money, Sex and Power” – is brimming with scandal. But will the unauthorised biography really pierce the “golden armour and dismantle the Beckham machine”, asked Katie Rosseinsky in The Independent. Given their “staggeringly slick” PR machine, it is a big ask.

The book comes off the back of a recent Netflix documentary, “Beckham”, that offered a “stage-managed insight” into David and Victoria’s relationship that was filled with “endearing off-duty snippets”, said Rosseinsky. These included the iconic clip of Victoria describing her “working-class” background before David pops his head round the door to reveal she used to be driven to school in a Rolls-Royce.

Following his series of “bombshell” books about the royals – the latest is titled “Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors” – Bower has shifted his gaze to “Britain’s other royal family”. But while it “strains to be explosive”, it ends up falling short, “like delving into a Wikipedia recap that re-treads old territory”.

Tabloid fodder

Perhaps the biggest issue with Bower’s book, said Zoe Williams in The Guardian, is that many of his most juicy “revelations” are already tabloid fodder. “ChatGPT could have done the whole thing faster, with the prompts: David Beckham – erection – sun lounger.”

“Nothing here feels new,” said Hannah Betts in The Telegraph. Stories from the papers are “regurgitated”: David is “stingy” and “squeaky-voiced”; Victoria is a “tuneless, furious-faced WAG” whose clothing brand is a “much-puffed vanity project”.

There are, however, “moments of magic” peppered sporadically throughout. Bower claims Victoria behaves so “capriciously” during her 2007 NBC documentary “Coming to America” that her exasperated team are said to have “chorused”: “So tell me what you want, what you really, really want.”

A ‘devil’s bargain’

Bower portrays their relationship as a “devil’s bargain”, said Betts, rather than the “happy-families image” that their PR machine trades off – yet “the narrative is oddly flat”.

His “overarching argument”, said Rosseinsky in The Independent, is that the marriage has, at times, been “little more than a mutually beneficial business arrangement” – something that “hardly feels like a novel thesis”.

And yet, said Hilary Rose in The Times, Bower can’t deny that, after more than two decades together, the Beckhams are “still standing”. They might not have lived “happily ever after” but on 4 July, just like they do every year, the couple will post “loving tributes” to each other as they celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary.

Despite the alleged affairs and the all-night arguing, said Williams in The Guardian, “they must, on some level, really like each other”.

Victoria Beckham has been hailed as a ‘comedic genius’ after poking fun at her ‘working class’ background in a new Super Bowl commercial.

Last year the former Spice Girl, 49, starred in the Netflix documentary series Beckham alongside her husband David.

In one stand-out moment, Victoria, who was known as Posh Spice during her time in the girl group, got a telling-off by her husband after he overheard her speaking to cameras about her family’s apparently humble beginnings.

Speaking to the interviewer, Victoria said: ‘We’re very, very working class.’

Opening a door and poking his head into the room, David urged his wife to ‘be honest’ before forcing her to share her dad owned a Rolls Royce, which can cost upwards of £252,000.

The couple have now recreated the exchange for an Uber Eats ad, which will air in full during the Super Bowl on February 11.

Victoria Beckham has been praised for poking fun at herself in a new Super Bowl commercial (Picture: Victoria Beckham/ Instagram)

In the teaser,Victoria is wearing a T-shirt that declares: ‘My dad had a Rolls-Royce.’

In the 35-second clip, they have a similar interaction to the one in the documentary with Victoria telling the camera: ‘David and I are going to be in a little commercial.’

David then appears from behind a wall to tell his wife to ‘be honest’.

She continues: ‘Okay, it’s a big commercial’, before her husband tells her to reveal more.

Victoria then reveals that the commercial will air during the ‘big baseball game’, actually referring to the Super Bowl, which is the National Football League’s annual championship game in America.

They then jokingly mistake the game again, saying it’s the ‘hockey bowl’ they’ll feature in.

In it, she and husband David recreate a moment from their Netflix series (Picture: Victoria Beckham/ Instagram)

David then urges her to share details ‘about Jessica Aniston’, seemingly in reference to Friends star Jennifer Aniston, to which his wife says: ‘Jessica Aniston is going to be in it too.’

The video ends with the words: ‘Whatever you forget this Sunday, remember Uber Eats.’

Fans thought the ad was hilarious, with Nicole Michalik commenting on Instagram: ‘Whoever came up with this deserves a raise.’

‘Victoria Beckham = comedic genius,’ user Spice Girls Net shared.

The couple have been hailed ‘national treasures’ (Picture: Victoria Beckham/ Instagram)

Another user, mcgowancherish, added: ‘You two are a national treasure and must be protected at all costs. Oh, and Jessica Aniston, too.’

Others labelled the pair ‘iconic’ and ‘so much fun’.

The ad comes two months after Victoria decided to first capitalise on the public’s love for their hilarious chat.

In November the fashion designer posted a photo of herself wearing a white shirt to her social media accounts and wrote ‘available now’ with a link to her website.

Last year the former Spice Girl said she had a ‘working class’ background (Picture: Netflix)

The slogan top read: ‘My Dad Had A Rolls Royce’.

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Sharing a video as well, Victoria said she had to embrace her background and had released a product to mark the occasion.

‘I can’t fight it anymore, yes my dad drove me to school in a Rolls Royce! Kisses David Beckham xx Shop the exclusive Slogan T-Shirt now!’ she wrote, whilst also sharing a clip of their exchange from the series.

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It’s no secret that David Beckham is rolling in cash thanks to his status as a footballing legend and heartthrob but his company is also dishing out hefty payslips.

While he may have admitted he was ‘jealous’ of wife Victoria recently, we’re jealous of whichever employee landed the eyewatering sum of £10,000,000.

DB Ventures, one of Becks’ many businesses, forked out the cool multimillion-pound paycheck to an undisclosed mystery person in 2022.

‘Golden Balls’ himself is worth $450 million (£370 million) combined with his Spice Girl wife but it’s unknown if he was the recipient of this huge payout.

The accounts, as seen by The Mirror, reveal that it was the highest-paid director of DB Ventures who took home the pay – but the company declined to name who that is.

Along with the Manchester United icon, Jamie Salter and Nick Woodhouse also serve as directors at the company so one of these three men took home the gold.

The Man U legend could have received the paycheck (Picture: Instagram/davidbeckham)

He has numerous business ventures including a new fragrance line (Picture: @cassblackbird/Instagram)

‘I’m afraid we won’t be disclosing who the highest-paid director is,’ a spokesperson for the 48-year-old legend told the publication.

The hefty payout was reportedly five times more than the combined salaries of the other 23 employees in the company.

This is just one firm in Beckham’s DRJB Holdings Limited empire, which is a ‘full-service global brand management operation’.

Whoever the lucky director is isn’t receiving this yearly as the payout was up 384% on the previous year, with the company turnover doubled to £72m in 2022.

The same year, Beckham reportedly sold a 55% stake in the firm to Authentic Brands for £200m.

For any business which falls outside DB Ventures, the former England captain has Seven Global, which made an £8.4 million profit through partnerships with Adidas, Tudor and Safilo.

Posh and Becks are worth over £360 million together (Picture: Victoria Beckham/Instagram)

Victoria’s company has had a boost thanks to an eyeliner (Picture: Victoria Beckham/Instagram)

Victoria is also having a stellar year with her companies, as one £30 product has literally caught TikTok’s eye.

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The Satin Kajal Liner, which comes in 16 colours, has been flying off the shelves so fast the company is struggling to keep up with the demand.

Since her fashion label launched in 2008, it has been in the red but a more positive forecast was given by her main financial backer, David Belhassen, who said the brand was expecting to turn a profit.

Accounts are published this month but it’s believed Posh’s revenue is up almost 50% to £58 million, partly thanks to the boom of the beauty range first launched in 2019.

With all these businesses, we’re sure the Beckhams were able to repair damage caused last month by Storm Henk at their £12million home in the Cotswolds.

It’s hard to imagine a time when David Beckham and Victoria Beckham were anything but the ultimate power couple.

But it turns out that early on in their relationship, the pair were closer to strangers than the tight-knit team we saw on the hit Netflix documentary about the couple’s life.

David, 48, recently revealed that he ‘didn’t know’ wife Victoria, 49, at the time of their marriage.

The legendary footballer reflected on his 25 years of marriage to Posh Spice on SiriusXM’s This Life of Mine with James Corden, disclosing that his wife’s true personality came as a surprise to him after they were already married.

He admitted that when he decided to put a ring on her finger in 1999 after just two years of dating, he ‘fancied her’ but didn’t really know her as a person.

It wasn’t until after the pair were wed that David began to really see his wife as the ‘strong woman’ she is.

The couple first met in 1997 and were married in 1999 (Picture: Tim Rooke/REX/Shutterstock)
He shared: ‘I really just fancied her. I did. I just fancied her.

‘I didn’t know what she was like as a person. I just actually fancied her like most people did at that time, and I didn’t know who I was marrying [or] who I was going to be with for the rest of my life.’

The pair, who are parents to Brooklyn, 25, Romeo, 21, Cruz, 19, and 12-year-old Harper, are definitely beyond ‘just fancying’ each other now.

Victoria reflected on the strength of their relationship in a profile in W Magazine: ‘No one said marriage was going to be easy. Yes, there have been bumps along the road. But the fact is we’ve come out of everything we’ve been through stronger and happier. It’s even better now than when we were first married. After all these years, we can just come home and have a laugh together.’

So, how did they get to that point?

David told Corden that once he got to know Victoria, their marriage really took off: ‘I didn’t realise what a strong woman she was, and that is what really attracted me to her more than anything.’

David and Victoria are often seen out on romantic date nights (Picture: KCS Presse / MEGA)

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He continued: ‘I like a strong woman, and I like the fact that she works hard. I like the fact that she’s a great mum.’

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The English icon even admitted that sometimes he likes his wife to dote on him, saying, ‘I like the fact that she looks after me sometimes, most of the time, and you know, we’ve created this life with four amazing children, which are the most important things in our life, so that’s why I chose Victoria… the way that she kind of runs the family.’

The successful marriage can be credited to the Spice Girls’ song Say You’ll Be There, according to David, who revealed that it was that music video that first drew him to Victoria.

He said: ‘It’s my favourite because it was the song that was on the TV when I was sat in my room with Gary Neville and it came on the telly and that was when I turned around to Gary and said, “I’m gonna marry that one in the short black dress”.’

It’s obvious that despite jumping into marriage, after 25 years together, the couple made the right choice.

A shocking new book is set to be released on power couple David and Victoria Beckham, which promises to expose their sex life.

Posh and Becks might share cheeky moments together, including emotional birthday posts and ab-flaunting snaps but their personal life is closely guarded.

Investigative journalist Tom Bower has hinted that he will explore the 48-year-old footballing legend’s alleged affair with Rebecca Loos as he lifts the lid on the Beckhams.

The House of Beckham: Money, Sex and Power is set to be released on June 20 and Tom promised: ‘Those who want to know about Beckham’s sex life won’t be disappointed.’

He didn’t interview the couple but reportedly spent two long sessions discussing them with a senior member of David’s team.

However, that’s not to say the power couple made research easy for him as he claimed they were attempting to block him from speaking to people.

He and Victoria keep fairly private about their lives together (Picture: Karwai Tang/WireImage)

Its thought the Rebecca Loos affair will be revisited (Picture: Ken McKay/Shutterstock)
Tom claimed to The Mirror: ‘The Beckhams made sure that quite a lot of people wouldn’t talk to me. But I did find enough people to talk to and got a lot of very interesting revelations. It was a book that surprised me.

‘We think we know everything. But in fact there is an enormous amount we don’t know – which the public will find out.’

It’s not clear if the book will be damaging to the couple, especially with the suggestion that it will reignite discussions about the controversial affair.

Rebecca was his personal assistant, who worked for him during his time playing for Real Madrid in 2003 she then sold her story to News of The World.

David blasted the claims as ‘ludicrous’ with him and Victoria, 50, consistently denying any extramarital antics.

In their Netflix documentary, David said that period was the ‘first time’ the couple had been ‘put under that kind of pressure in our marriage’.

Victoria has just celebrated her 50th birthday (Picture: Victoria Beckham/Instagram)

She and David are as loved-up as ever in the face of the tell-all book (Picture: David Beckham/Instagram)
Advertising the book on their site, publishers HarperCollins wrote: ‘Through extensive research, expert sourcing and interviews with insiders, Britain’s most celebrated investigative biographer, Tom Bower, has unearthed a succession of revelations that give surprising insight into the reality of Brand Beckham.

‘Exploring the couple’s relationship, and the truth about their football and fashion careers, their finances and their new life in Miami, The House Of Beckham unravels the extraordinary reality of the business-savvy cultural icons to tell an engrossing, often astonishing story of money, sex and power.’

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Read More StoriesNeither Victoria or David have addressed the book so far, focusing on Posh’s fabulous 50th birthday celebrations instead.

Sharing a slew of throwback well wishes on her Instagram story, the Spice Girls legend wrote: ‘As I get ready to step into 50 (in heels, of course!), I feel so incredibly blessed to have reached this milestone.’

As she listed her incredible achievements, Victoria added: ‘If you’re really lucky, you’ll find someone who believes in you even more than you do. @DavidBeckham, I’m forever grateful for your unconditional love and support.’

Victoria Beckham’s alleged “anger” over Meghan Markle’s wedding has been relived in a tell-all new book about the former Spice Girl and her husband David Beckham.

The House of Beckham by Tom Bower, serialised by the Mirror over the weekend, puts David’s romance with wife Victoria under the spotlight, with details of the ups and downs of their decades-long marriage examined alongside claims about their relationship with Meghan Markle and her husband Prince Harry.

The former England captain, 49, and Posh Spice, 50, attended both William’s 2011 wedding to Kate Middleton and Harry and Meghan’s nuptials in 2018. However, according to The House of Beckham, Posh felt “insulted” by not being invited to the Sussexes’ wedding dinner.

In his book, Bower writes that “Meghan had not invited them to the wedding dinner” and Victoria considered this an “insult” as “many guests such as George Clooney and other Hollywood stars invited that evening did not even know Meghan”.

The House of Beckham by Tom Bower, serialised by the Mirror over the weekend, puts David’s romance with wife Victoria under the spotlight ( 
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Bower points to photos of a “stony-faced” Victoria arriving at St George’s Chapel for the wedding as evidence of her sour mood. The author also claims Victoria’s expression was in part thanks to David’s behaviour at a party the previous evening, writing: “He had been buying drinks for a brunette while Victoria sat silently thunderous nearby. Worse still, that very morning the woman had posted photos of herself and Beckham on the web.”

It’s not the first time it’s been reported that the Beckhams and Sussexes’ friendship became strained. It appears that the Beckhams stayed on friendly terms with Harry when he started dating Meghan and they were reportedly eager to make her feel welcome in the UK. There were even reports that Victoria had given Meghan access to her little black book of her favourite hairdressers and stylists in London.

In his book, Bower writes that “Meghan had not invited them to the wedding dinner” ( 
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It’s not the first time it’s been reported that the Beckhams and Sussexes’ friendship became strained ( 
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According to the Mail On Sunday, Harry and Meghan were said to be worried that close friends might be leaking stories about them after they moved to the USA and were keen to find out who could be behind it. It is alleged that in particular, Meghan suspected Victoria – and Harry called David to repeat the accusation.

But despite the growing tension, Meghan did wear some of Victoria’s designs after this. On Christmas Day in 2018, while pregnant with Prince Archie, she wore a Victoria Beckham navy coat during the royals annual walk to church in Sandringham. And just months later in March 2019, she wore a Victoria Beckham to the Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abbey.

However, more recently, there have been signs that all has not been right between the Sussexes and the Beckhams. In 2022 when David and Victoria’s eldest son Brooklyn married actress Nicola Peltz in a lavish wedding in Florida, Harry and Meghan were nowhere to be seen.

Harry did however attend a match between David’s Inter Miami and Los Angeles FC last year, where he was seen fanboying over Miami’s star player Messi. But before kick-off, a list of “notable attendees” was distributed that showed Harry and Meghan would both be at the game. What’s more, Meghan was nowhere to be seen and did not appear to join Harry in the stands.

Mirror Online has approached the Beckhams for comment. A rep for the Sussexes declined to comment.

Meghan Markle has been criticised by a celebrity biographer for thinking she held a higher social status than Victoria Beckham.

The statement has been made in Tom Bower’s new book titled The House of Beckham, which also says the Duchess of Sussex was “irritated” to discover the couple had more money than her.

Bower brands the former Suits star as “deluded” for her thoughts as he opened up on the Sussexes and Beckhams’ broken relationship. The two couples had previously been linked as pals, but Bower said Meghan’s thought she had little in common with the former Spice Girl.

Meghan is said to have been irritated by the Beckhams ( 
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He wrote: “In Meghan’s celebrity world, ranking depended on wealth and fame. As a seasoned operator, Meghan deluded herself that her status in the Royal family placed her above Victoria in the social pecking order.”

He continued: “She was irritated to discover that the Beckhams had considerably more wealth than herself. They owned five homes, had constant access to private jets, invitations to sail on yachts and much more money. And she was soon to be a duchess.”

Despite her thoughts, it’s believed Meghan tried to make the pairing work due to husband Prince Harry’s connection with the famous couple. It’s not the first time Meghan has been branded deluded. Last year, royal expert Jennie Bond told OK! the Sussexes had a deluded idea of their social status. Speaking to the magazine, Bond said it was after it was alleged they had wanted to return to the US on Air Force One following Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral – a request that’s said to have been snubbed.

Bond said: “Firstly, they have a very grandiose and deluded idea of their status on the world stage. And, secondly, they are impervious to the sensitivities of the situation they have created by stepping back as working Royals and then firing volleys of allegations at the royal family from their Californian haven.”

She also slammed the couple as “insensitive” for putting President Biden “in a very awkward position” with a request in the first place.

Victoria Beckham ‘couldn’t stand’ her former bandmate, Geri Horner, according to Tom Bower.

The investigative journalist’s new book, The House of Beckham: Money, Sex and Power, which has been serialised by the Mirror before its release on June 20, takes a deep dive into the relationship of one of the most influential couples in the world, including what Victoria was like behind closed doors.

The mum-of-four, 50, has known Geri, 51, since the nineties when they shot to fame as Posh and Ginger Spice in the best-selling girl band. However, in recent years there’s been rumours of a rift between the pair, highlighted when Geri unfollowed Victoria and David earlier this year amid her husband, Christian’s work conduct allegations at Red Bull.

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Speaking about their relationship during the Spice Girls’ fame, Bower claims everyone loved [David] Beckham, but “Victoria was different” adding: “Increasingly, she was outspoken and provoked retaliation.” He continues: “‘I can’t stand Geri,’ she said about her former best friend. ‘She is one of the most disloyal people I’ve ever known.’”

The book also claims the fashion designer mocked Geri for dating DJ Chris Evans, who she was in a relationship with in 1999. Bower claims: “Twisting the knife, she even scoffed at Geri for going out with DJ Chris Evans. ‘She’ll do anything to get publicity. Geri doesn’t care what she does as long as she gets in the paper.’”

It wouldn’t be the first time the Spice Girls have been accused of falling out. Back in 2002, Mel B claimed in her autobiography that she and Geri used to argue like lovers.

Meanwhile, Melanie ‘Mel C’ Chisholm was also involved in her own spat, writing in her memoir that Geri once got “clocked in the face” while trying to “keep the peace” during a fight between the two Mels.

In her second memoir, Mel B also revealed that she and Victoria fell out in the ’90s when, during a group holiday to Hawaii, Posh saw Mel B’s holiday fling pooing on the beach and called him “disgusting”.

In February, it was also reported by MailOnline that Geri had unfollowed Victoria on Instagram, however, Geri did celebrate her 50th birthday in April, although her husband Christian did not attend. Geri has been married to millionaire formula one Team Principal and CEO Christian Horner, 50, since 2015 and they share a son together. But as the mum-of-two stepped out of her limo – in trademark pristine white – to join Victoria at her party, Christian was nowhere to be seen.

However, it seems the F1 boss was forced to miss out on the fun due to work commitments – as the Chinese F1 was in full swing and he needed to attend.

Mirror Online has reached out to Geri and Victoria’s reps for comment.

David Beckham’s relationships with royal brothers Prince William and Prince Harry is explored in a juicy new book about the retired footballer.

The House of Beckham by Tom Bower, serialised by the Mirror over the weekend, David’s romance with wife Victoria Beckham is put under the spotlight, with new details of the ups and downs of their decades-long marriage revealed.

But the new book makes claims about Posh and Becks’ relationship with the royal family, in particular their crumbling union with Harry and his wife Meghan Markle.

The former England captain, 49, and Posh Spice, 50, attended both William’s 2011 wedding to Kate Middleton and Harry and Meghan’s nuptials in 2018. However, according to The House of Beckham, David’s friendship with both brothers rubbed Meghan up the wrong way.

Prince William and Prince Harry with David Beckham in happier times back in 2010 ( 
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In his book, Bower writes how ahead of their wedding, Meghan and Harry were miffed by David’s chummy relationship with William, which had been going strong since the UK’s World Cup bid in 2010. The Duke of Duchess of Sussex, already grumbling about their perceived lesser status and wealth compared to the Cambridges, found the sight of Becks hobnobbing with William irksome.

“Meghan appeared to want to punish the Beckhams,” Bower writes. “Television pictures of the couple arriving at St George’s Chapel for the wedding showed Victoria stony-faced and David chewing gum. Meghan had not invited them to the wedding dinner. Her veto was an insult.”

He continues: “After all, many guests such as George Clooney and other Hollywood stars invited that evening did not even know Meghan. Victoria’s sour expression also reflected her anger about David’s behaviour at a Soho House party the previous night. He had been buying drinks for a brunette while Victoria sat silently thunderous nearby. Worse still, that very morning the woman had posted photos of herself and Beckham on the web.”

Post-wedding ceremony, the Beckhams bumped into King Charles at the sun-drenched reception in the garden. Charles and David first met two decades ago at the Old Trafford football stadium. As he was leaving, Charles had quipped to his aide, ‘Why do these people never wear socks?’

That afternoon, Charles ran into a member of the People’s Royalty who was, indeed, wearing socks. Moving on, Beckham extended his congratulations to Harry. During their chat, the Prince invited Beckham to join him in Sydney come October. For the Invictus Games, a competition for injured servicemen, he was quick to say yes. His team were given the job of finding a sponsor to cover his travel costs. He intended to bring along Victoria and their four children, according to The House of Beckham.

Later in the book, Bower writes how David did attend the games but “found himself alone at the Invictus Games stadium” and kept away from the Duke of Sussex, unaware that Harry “had ordered that under no circumstances was the footballer to be allowed near him.”

The Mirror has approached representatives for both the Beckhams and the Sussexes for comment on this story.